The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: a configurable auction server for human and software agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
ADEPT: an agent-based approach to business process management
ACM SIGMOD Record
Protocols and intentional specifications of multi-party agent conversions for brokerage and auctions
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Law-governed interaction: a coordination and control mechanism for heterogeneous distributed systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Automated negotiation from declarative contract descriptions
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Law-governed peer-to-peer auctions
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Decision procedures for multiple auctions
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
On the Formal Specifications of Electronic Institutions
Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, The European AgentLink Perspective.
Convertible Undeniable Signatures
CRYPTO '90 Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Semantic Web support for the business-to-business e-commerce pre-contractual lifecycle
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: The Semantic Web: an evolution for a revolution
Computational-Mechanism Design: A Call to Arms
IEEE Intelligent Systems
The Description Logic Handbook
The Description Logic Handbook
Specifying electronic societies with the causal calculator
AOSE'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering III
Architecting for reuse: a software framework for automated negotiation
AOSE'02 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Agent-oriented software engineering III
Architectures for negotiating agents
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
Implementing rule-based mechanisms for agent-based price negotiations
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Learning inventory management strategies for commodity supply chains with customer satisfaction
ICEC '06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Electronic commerce: The new e-commerce: innovations for conquering current barriers, obstacles and limitations to conducting successful business on the internet
Adding a Declarative Representation of Negotiation Mechanisms to an Agent-Based Negotiation Service
WI-IATW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops
EATIS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Euro American conference on Telematics and information systems
Formal Modeling of Agent-Based English Auctions Using Finite State Process Algebra
KES-AMSTA '07 Proceedings of the 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications
Towards Reputation Enhanced Electronic Negotiations for Service Oriented Computing
Trust in Agent Societies
The design and implementation of an agent-based auction service
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
Computer Intelligent Support for the ADR/ODR Domain
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2007: The Twentieth Annual Conference
Negotiation among autonomous computational agents: principles, analysis and challenges
Artificial Intelligence Review
Using rules and R2ML for modeling negotiation mechanisms in e-commerce agent systems
TEAA'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Trends in enterprise application architecture
An agent-based market platform for Smart Grids
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: Industry track
An agent-based multi-issue negotiation model in e-commerce
ICIC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Intelligent computing: Part II
Agent-based decision making in the electronic marketplace: interactive negotiation
KES-AMSTA'10 Proceedings of the 4th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications, Part II
Pairwise issue modeling for negotiation counteroffer prediction using neural networks
Decision Support Systems
Preference-based English reverse auctions
Artificial Intelligence
Rule-based distributed and agent systems
RuleML'2011 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Rule-based reasoning, programming, and applications
Multilateral negotiations in distributed, multi-agent environment
ICCCI'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part II
Automatic Service Agreement Negotiators in Open Commerce Environments
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Combining rule-based and plug-in components in agents for flexible dynamic negotiations
CEEMAS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
Experimenting with a multi-agent e-commerce environment
PaCT'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Parallel Computing Technologies
Rule-Based automated price negotiation: overview and experiment
ICAISC'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
Rule-Based framework for automated negotiation: initial implementation
RuleML'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web
Information flow in a distributed agent-based online auction system
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
KEMNAD: A Knowledge Engineering Methodology For Negotiating Agent Development
Computational Intelligence
A bargaining-specific architecture for supporting automated service agreement negotiation systems
Science of Computer Programming
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If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when negotiation terminates, and what is the structure of the resulting agreements. Current standardization activities such as FIPA [2] and WS-Agreement [3] represent this as a negotiation protocol specifying the flow of messages. However, they omit other aspects of the rules of negotiation (such as obliging a participant to improve on a previous offer), requiring these to be represented implicitly in an agent’s design, potentially resulting incompatibility, maintenance and re-usability problems. In this chapter, we propose an alternative approach, allowing all of a mechanism to be formal and explicit. We present (i) a taxonomy of declarative rules which can be used to capture a wide variety of negotiation mechanisms in a principled and well-structured way; (ii) a simple interaction protocol, which is able to support any mechanism which can be captured using the declarative rules; (iii) a software framework for negotiation that allows agents to effectively participate in negotiations defined using our rule taxonomy and protocol and (iv) a language for expressing aspects of the negotiation based on OWL-Lite [4]. We provide examples of some of the mechanisms that the framework can support.