Argument-Based Decision Making and Negotiation in E-Business: Contracting a Land Lease for a Computer Assembly Plant

  • Authors:
  • Phan Minh Dung;Phan Minh Thang;Nguyen Duy Hung

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Thailand 12120;Department of Computer Science, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Thailand 12120;Department of Computer Science, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Thailand 12120

  • Venue:
  • Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We describe an extensive application of argument-based decision making and negotiation to a real-world scenario in which an investor agent and an estate manager agent negotiate to lease a land for a computer assembly factory. Agents are equipped with beliefs, goals, preferences, and argument-based decision-making mechanisms taking uncertainties into account. Goals are classified as either structural or contractual. The negotiation process is divided into two phases. In the first phase, following a recently proposed framework [8] the investor agent find suitable locations based on its structural goals such as requirements about transportation; the estate manager agent determines favored tenants based on its structural goals such as requirements about resource conservation. In the second phase, we introduce a new novel argument-based negotiation protocol for agents to agree on contract to fulfill their contractual goals such as waste disposal cost.