Why triangular membership functions?
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
An experimental analysis of multi-attribute auctions
Decision Support Systems
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Fuzzy set and possibility theory-based methods in artificial intelligence
Agent-mediated electronic commerce: a survey
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Intelligent agents for e-marketplace: negotiation with issue trade-offs by fuzzy inference systems
Decision Support Systems
Models for Iterative Multiattribute Procurement Auctions
Management Science
Predicting opponent's moves in electronic negotiations using neural networks
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Logic-based automated multi-issue bilateral negotiation in peer-to-peer e-marketplaces
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Visualizing decision process on spheres based on the even swap concept
Decision Support Systems
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Agent-based bilateral multi-issue negotiation scheme for e-market transactions
Applied Soft Computing
Negotiation among autonomous computational agents: principles, analysis and challenges
Artificial Intelligence Review
Weighted Description Logics Preference Formulas for Multiattribute Negotiation
SUM '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management
Improving trade-offs in automated bilateral negotiations for expressive and inexpressive scenarios
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology - Knowledge integration and management in autonomous systems
Automated negotiation for complex multi-agent resource allocation
Automated negotiation for complex multi-agent resource allocation
A bargaining-specific architecture for supporting automated service agreement negotiation systems
Science of Computer Programming
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''Even-Swaps'' is a well-known and easy-to-use trade-off methodology which provides several useful features to decision makers. It allows them to find the difference among alternatives in terms of any issue under consideration. In a typical negotiation environment, allocating these differences in terms of a bargainable issue can help the negotiators to clarify the agreement area for each alternative. This allocation can contribute to make bargaining decisions more rationally. However, this feature could not be used in the original version of the Even-Swaps method because of its rigid structure that tries to reveal only the best alternative. The original Even-Swaps method also provides several hypothetical questions to decision makers while performing issue trade-offs. It is believed that the original Even-Swaps method can be improved upon (adapted) by forwarding the hypothetical questions to sellers and by developing a modified/flexible structure which considers all bargainable alternatives. With these modifications are successfully realized, an agent can generate counter offers and interact with sellers for bargaining by means of an appropriate automated-negotiation mechanism. The development of an automated & multi-issue negotiation-mechanism for bargaining also presents unique opportunities for the re-evolution of consumers into customers while contributing to the buyer-seller interactions. In this study, we present a novel multi-issue negotiation mechanism which adapts a modified Even-Swaps method that finds the differences among alternatives and makes use of those differences to assess the value of multi-issue offers. It uses a fuzzy inference system for bargaining on several issues simultaneously. In order to accomplish the steps of the proposed mechanism, a supplementary semi-automated decision-aid tool, so called: ''Modified Even-Swaps Agent (MESA)'' is developed. A real case-study is presented step by step in order to demonstrate how the proposed mechanism works.