Modern heuristic techniques for combinatorial problems
Modern heuristic techniques for combinatorial problems
A market architecture for multi-agent contracting
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: a configurable auction server for human and software agents
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
Evaluating risk: flexibility and feasibility in multi-agent contracting
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Socially conscious decision-making
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Bidding and allocation in combinatorial auctions
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Combinatorial auctions for supply chain formation
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
An auction-based method for decentralized train scheduling
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Decision Processes in Agent-Based Automated Contracting
IEEE Internet Computing
An Algorithm for Optimal Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
A Combinatorial Auction for Collaborative Planning
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Agent-mediated electronic commerce: a survey
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Scheduling tasks with precedence constraints to solicit desirable bid combinations
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Risk and user preferences in winner determination
ICEC '03 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Electronic commerce
A Trust/Honesty Model with Adaptive Strategy for Multiagent Semi-Competitive Environments
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Asking the right question: Risk and expectation in multiagent contracting
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
A Multi-Agent Negotiation Testbed for Contracting Tasks with Temporal and Precedence Constraints
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
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In related research we have proposed a market architecture for multi-agent contracting and we have implemented prototypes of both the market architecture and the agents in a system called MAGNET. A customer agent in MAGNET solicits bids for the execution of multi-step plans, in which tasks have precedence and time constraints, by posting a Request for Quotes to the market. The Request for Quotes needs to include for each task its precedence constraints and a time window. In this paper, we study the problem of optimizing the time windows in the Requests for Quotes. Our approach is to use the Expected Utility Theory to reduce the likelihood of receiving unattractive bids, while maximizing the number of bids that are likely to be included in the winning bundle. We describe the model, illustrate its operation and properties, and discuss what assumptions are required for its successful integration into MAGNET or other multi-agent contracting systems.