Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of provid...
Communication in heterogeneous multi agent systems is hampered by the lack of shared ontologies. Ontology negotiation offers an integrated approach that enables agents to gradual...
Jurriaan van Diggelen, Robbert-Jan Beun, Frank Dig...
Abstract. We present a novel logic-based approach to automate multi-issue bilateral negotiation in e-marketplaces. In such frameworks issues to negotiate on can be multiple, interr...
Azzurra Ragone, Umberto Straccia, Tommaso Di Noia,...
Negotiation is essential in settings where agents have conflicting interests and a desire to cooperate. In many approaches, agents are assumed to have pre-set, fixed preferences...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...