Title :
Multi-agent coalition via autonomous price negotiation in a real-time Web environment
Author :
LAU, Hoong Chuin ; LIM, Wei Sian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
In e-marketplaces, customers specify job requests in real-time and agents form coalitions to service them. This paper proposes a protocol for self-interested agents to negotiate prices in forming successful coalitions. We propose and experiment with two negotiation schemes: one allows information sharing while the other does not.
Keywords :
Internet; electronic commerce; multi-agent systems; negotiation support systems; pricing; protocols; autonomous price negotiation; e-marketplace; information sharing; job request; multiagent coalition; protocol; real-time Web environment; self-interested agents; Intelligent agent;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Agent Technology, 2003. IAT 2003. IEEE/WIC International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1931-8
DOI :
10.1109/IAT.2003.1241149
