Agents for supporting utility tradeoff of negotiation between construction contractor and suppliers

Author

Dzeng, R.J. ; Pan, N.F. ; Wang, P.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Nat. Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2009

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1694

Lastpage

1698

Abstract

This research describes a decision-support model that helps business bargainers explore negotiable options for the procurement in the construction industry. The proposed model is consisted of three software agents. One agent supports the contractors´ decision by allowing them to input their negotiation preferences, and another supports the suppliers. Either of agents is not aware of the preferences of the other. The third agent plays the role of middle man who receives the proposals from both sides and search for optimal negotiation result in terms of total utility. Compared to the actual agreement specified in the two surveyed project contracts, the negotiation results suggested by the model increased the total utility by as high as 10% based on the preferences of human bargainers.

Keywords

construction industry; negotiation support systems; procurement; software agents; business bargainers; construction contractor; construction industry; decision-support model; negotiable options; procurement; software agents; suppliers; utility tradeoff; Building materials; Civil engineering; Conducting materials; Construction industry; Procurement; Production; Proposals; Software agents; Stress; Visualization; E-commerce application; Genetic algorithm; Intelligent agent; Procurement negotiation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2009. IEEM 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4869-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4870-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2009.5373139

Filename

5373139