Title :
A model of progressive multi-agent negotiation
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Intelligent Syst. Res., BT Labs., Martlesham Heath, UK
Abstract :
Negotiation is one approach for coordinating agents in a competitive environment where agents have conflicting interests. This paper presents a model of multi-agent negotiation that allows agents to carry out negotiations progressively. We also find that there are predictable trends between various settings in the negotiation process and the negotiation outcomes, the result of which could help agent designers to find satisfying strategies instead of finding costly optimal strategies.
Keywords :
cooperative systems; competitive environment; negotiation outcomes; negotiation process; progressive multi-agent negotiation; Autonomous agents; Competitive intelligence; Computational modeling; Humans; IEEE news; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Laboratories; Proposals; Protocols; Subspace constraints; System recovery; Voting;
Conference_Titel :
Multi Agent Systems, 1998. Proceedings. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8500-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699279
