Negotiation is a process in which two or more parties aim to reach a joint agreement. As such negotiation involves rational decision making about options and issues. However, negot...
Joost Broekens, Catholijn M. Jonker, John-Jules Ch...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce an agent architecture for joint action negotiation among several agents in complex environments and with negotiation time bounds. The architect...
Traditional negotiation, conducted face-to-face and via mail or telephone, is often difficult to manage, prone to misunderstanding, and time consuming. Automated negotiation promis...
We investigate people’s attitudes towards the possible use of mobile negotiation support systems (NSS) in different social contexts and the consequences for their design. For tha...
Negotiation is a process that ranges from international issues to common society interactions. We present approaches to facilitate the process by exploring alternative spaces for t...
Electronic negotiation experiments provide a rich source of information about relationships between the negotiators, their individual actions, and the negotiation dynami...
We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous agents. The purpose of the negotiation is to reach an agreement about the provision of a service by one agent for anoth...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
The need for negotiation in multi-agent systems stems from the requirement for agents to solve the problems posed by their interdependence upon one another. Negotiation provides a...
Simon Parsons, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings
Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an itera...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
We present a multi-dimensional, multi-step negotiation mechanism for task allocation among cooperative agents based on distributed search. This mechanism uses marginal utility gai...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Rodion M. Podoroz...