The emerging role of electronic marketplaces on the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Agent-oriented technology in support of e-business
Communications of the ACM
Multi-issue negotiation under time constraints
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
A Service-Oriented Negotiation Model between Autonomous Agents
Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: Multi-Agent Rationality
An agenda-based framework for multi-issue negotiation
Artificial Intelligence
Optimal Negotiation of Multiple Issues in Incomplete Information Settings
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Designing a successful trading agent for supply chain management
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Intelligent agents for e-marketplace: negotiation with issue trade-offs by fuzzy inference systems
Decision Support Systems
Toward a Generic Model of Trust for Electronic Commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Market-driven agents with uncertain and dynamic outside options
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Approximate and online multi-issue negotiation
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
A pareto optimal model for automated multi-attribute negotiations
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The effects of market-making on price dynamics
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Characterizing effective auction mechanisms: insights from the 2007 TAC market design competition
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Adaptive conceding strategies for automated trading agents in dynamic, open markets
Decision Support Systems
An analysis of feasible solutions for multi-issue negotiation involving nonlinear utility functions
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Auction Advisor: an agent-based online-auction decision support system
Decision Support Systems
A model for multi-lateral negotiations on an agent-based job marketplace
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Pairwise issue modeling for negotiation counteroffer prediction using neural networks
Decision Support Systems
Strategic agents for multi-resource negotiation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Electronic Commerce has been a significant commercial phenomenon in recent years, and brings more benefits to people by comparison with the traditional market in aspects of cost, convenience and efficiency. The use of agent technology in e-markets for automatic bargains between buyers and sellers further increases the advantages of the e-market. However, most of existing agent-based bargain strategies assume a fixed number of negotiation participants, which may fail to enlarge agents' profits or to lead a bargain to a success when these strategies are applied in the e-market-based agent negotiations straightway. Problems such as unexpected changes on negotiation participants, possible changes on agents' expected negotiation outcomes, and unexpected switching in-between the buyer's and seller's markets need to be considered in order to guarantee agents' benefits and the success of negotiations. This paper proposes a novel agent negotiation model to help agents to perform a more effective bargain in e-markets by considering the objectiveness of the e-markets and the subjectiveness of the agents. The e-market situation by considering the number of bargain participants is proposed to reflect the objectiveness of the e-markets, and the agents' negotiation attitudes is introduced to indicate agents' responses to possible changes of the e-markets. Both the objectiveness of e-markets and the subjectiveness of agents are taken into account in negotiation procedures such as offer evaluation, negotiation decision making and counter-offer generation. Experimental results on a simulated e-market illustrate the benefits and efficiency of the proposed negotiation model in handling agents bargain problem in complex and dynamic e-market environments.