Distributed constraint satisfaction: foundations of cooperation in multi-agent systems
Distributed constraint satisfaction: foundations of cooperation in multi-agent systems
Using Similarity Criteria to Make Negotiation Trade-Offs
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Modeling complex multi-issue negotiations using utility graphs
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An expressive approach to fuzzy constraint based agent purchase negotiation
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Multi-issue negotiation protocol for agents: exploring nonlinear utility spaces
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Eliminating interdependencies between issues for multi-issue negotiation
CIA'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cooperative Information Agents
Max-Product for Maximum Weight Matching: Convergence, Correctness, and LP Duality
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
NegoExplorer: A Region-Based Recursive Approach to Bilateral Multi-attribute Negotiation
PRIMA '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
Avoiding the prisoner's dilemma in auction-based negotiations for highly rugged utility spaces
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
A multi-issue negotiation framework for non-monotonic preference spaces
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Consensus policy based multi-agent negotiation
PRIMA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A new fuzzy negotiation protocol for grid resource allocation
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Negotiation scenarios involving nonlinear utility functions are specially challenging, because traditional negotiation mechanisms cannot be applied. Even mechanisms designed and proven useful for nonlinear utility spaces may fail if the utility space is highly nonlinear. For example, although both contract sampling and constraint sampling have been successfully used in auction based negotiations with constraint-based utility spaces, they tend to fail in highly nonlinear utility scenarios. In this paper, we will show that the performance of these approaches decrease drastically in highly nonlinear utility scenarios, and propose a mechanism which balances utility and deal probability for the bidding and deal identification processes. The experiments show that the proposed mechanisms yield better results than the previous approaches in highly nonlinear negotiation scenarios.