Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
An analytical process model of two-party negotiations
Management Science
The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: a configurable auction server for human and software agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Reaching agreements through argumentation: a logical model and implementation
Artificial Intelligence
eMediator: a next generation electronic commerce server
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-issue negotiation under time constraints
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
A Real-Life Experiment in Creating an Agent Marketplace
Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence, Concepts and Applications
A Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
On Constraint-Based Reasoning in e-Negotiation Agents
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce III, Current Issues in Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems (includes revised papers from AMEC 2000 Workshop)
An Ontology Based Approach to Automated Negotiation
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
An Internet-based negotiation server for e-commerce
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Towards interest-based negotiation
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An agenda-based framework for multi-issue negotiation
Artificial Intelligence
Bilateral Negotiation Decisions with Uncertain Dynamic Outside Options
WEC '04 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting
Argumentation-based negotiation
The Knowledge Engineering Review
DR-NEGOTIATE - A System for Automated Agent Negotiation with Defeasible Logic-Based Strategies
EEE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'05) on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service
A Negotiation Meta Strategy Combining Trade-off and Concession Moves
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Searching for fair joint gains in agent-based negotiation
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Automatic Service Agreement Negotiators in Open Commerce Environments
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
The evaluation of intelligent agent performance - An example of B2C e-commerce negotiation
Computer Standards & Interfaces
How to select fair improving directions in a negotiation model overcontinuous issues
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Rational agents, contract curves, and inefficient compromises
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
A bargaining-specific architecture for supporting automated service agreement negotiation systems
Science of Computer Programming
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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Automated negotiation is one of the most common approaches used to make decisions and manage disputes between computational entities leading them to optimal agreements. Many existing works tackle single-issue negotiations and the negotiation environment is assumed to be static so that the agents can make decisions based solely on the proposals of the counterparts and their own fixed parameters. Most real-world scenarios, however, involve complex domains and dynamic environments. In such cases, it is no longer sufficient to consider negotiation as an isolated activity in a static environment. Therefore, a more general framework for automated negotiation is needed in which the negotiation agents can be very flexible and adaptive. In this paper, we describe a generic framework for automated negotiation, which captures descriptively the social dynamics of the negotiation process. The proposed framework enables the agents to behave responsively to the changes in the environment. Their strategies can adapt as the conditions outside of the negotiation change to ensure that their decisions remain rational. And the agents are proactive and responsive by searching for options, which are outside of the negotiation and which may improve their outcomes. The key ideas and the overall system architecture together with a specific negotiation instance in a basic bilateral setting are described, along with two illustrative examples. The first example is in the context of e-commerce, and the second example is an application scenario of service level agreement negotiation in service computing. We also describe a prototypical implementation of the proposed negotiation framework.