Modeling e-negotiation activities with Petri nets

Author

Hung, Patrick C K ; Mao, Ji-Ye

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. Sci., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

7-10 Jan. 2002

Firstpage

379

Lastpage

388

Abstract

Electronic negotiation involves two or more agents multilaterally bargaining for mutual gain, using information technologies in a cooperative problem-solving (CPS) environment. Most of the existing work deals with the development of strategies for supporting negotiation activities in a pre-defined problem structure. In this paper, we focus on the information flow among the different entities of e-negotiation. We present a Petri net-based generic framework for modeling e-negotiation. Our approach provides a theoretical framework for studying e-negotiation activities at a conceptual and logical level.

Keywords

Petri nets; modelling; multi-agent systems; negotiation support systems; problem solving; Petri nets; conceptual level; cooperative problem-solving environment; electronic negotiation activities modelling; generic framework; information flow; information technologies; logical level; multilaterally bargaining agents; mutual gain; Buildings; Companies; Environmental management; Humans; Information technology; International collaboration; Investments; Petri nets; Problem-solving; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2002. HICSS. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1435-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2002.993886

Filename

993886