Knowledge engineering: principles and methods
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special jubilee issue: DKE 25
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Predicting Agents Tactics in Automated Negotiation
IAT '04 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
Ontology Support for Communicating Agents in Negotiation Processes
HIS '05 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Intelligent agents for e-marketplace: negotiation with issue trade-offs by fuzzy inference systems
Decision Support Systems
Strategy Acquisition of Agents in Multi-Issue Negotiation
WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
Towards a web services and intelligent agents-based negotiation system for B2B eCommerce
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
An Ontology Framework for EC Automated Negotiation Protocol
SNPD '07 Proceedings of the Eighth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing - Volume 03
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Enacting agent-based services for automated procurement
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Outsourcer selection and order tracking in a supply chain by mobile agents
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Agent-based bilateral multi-issue negotiation scheme for e-market transactions
Applied Soft Computing
The agent-based negotiation process for B2C e-commerce
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Ontology-based Services to help solving the heterogeneity problem in e-commerce negotiations
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Ontologies for supporting negotiation in e-commerce
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
OWL rules: A proposal and prototype implementation
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
ECA Rule-Based Negotiation Agent in E-commerce
ICCSN '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Second International Conference on Communication Software and Networks
Rule-Based automated price negotiation: overview and experiment
ICAISC'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
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Effective supply chain management (SCM) comprises activities involving the demand and supply of resources and services. Negotiation is an essential approach to solve conflicting transaction and scheduling problems among supply chain members. The multi-agent system (MAS) technology has provided the potential of automating supply chain negotiations to alleviate human interactions. Software agents are supposed to perform on behalf of their human owners only when equipped with sophisticated negotiation knowledge. To better organize the negotiation knowledge utilized by agents and facilitate agents' adaptive negotiation decision making ability, an ontology-based approach is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the multi-agent assisted supply chain negotiation scheme is presented to configure the general design components of the negotiation system, covering the agent intelligence modules, the knowledge organization method and the negotiation protocol. Then, the ontology-based negotiation knowledge organization method is specified. The negotiation knowledge is separated into shared negotiation ontology and private negotiation ontology to ensure both the agent communicative interoperability and the privacy of strategic knowledge. Inference rules are defined on top of the private negotiation ontology to guide agents' reasoning ability. Through this method, agents' negotiation behaviors will be more adaptive to various negotiation environments utilizing corresponding negotiation knowledge.