Relating Quantified Motivations for Organizationally Situated Agents
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Negotiation among self-interested computationally limited agents
Negotiation among self-interested computationally limited agents
Advantages of a leveled commitment contracting protocol
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Evolution of the GPGP/TÆMS Domain-Independent Coordination Framework
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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
A layered approach to complex negotiations
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
A framework for meta-level control in multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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AOIS'04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems II
A negotiation framework for linked combinatorial optimization problems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Multi-linked negotiation describes a situation where one agent needs to negotiate with multiple agents about different issues, and the negotiation over one issue influences the negotiations over other issues. Multi-linked issues will become important for the next generation of more complicated Multi-Agent Systems. However, most current negotiation research only looks at single issue negotiation and thus does not present techniques to reason and manage multi-linked issues. In this paper, we present a technique based on the use of a partial-order schedule and a measure of the schedule, called flexibility, which enables an agent to reason explicitly about the interactions among multiple negotiation issues. We show how an agent uses the partial-order schedule to effectively manage interacting negotiation issues; and how the flexibility is a key measure for ordering and managing negotiation issues. Experimental work is presented which shows this management technique for multi-linked negotiation leads to improved performance.