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ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
Learning-based automated negotiation between shipper and forwarder
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International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
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This paper focuses on the issues involved when multiple mobile agents interact in multi-agent systems. The application is an intelligent agent market place, where buyer and seller agents cooperate and compete to process sales transactions for their owners.The market place manager acts as a facilitator by giving necessary information to agents and managing communication between agents, and also as a mediator by proposing solutions to agents or stopping them to get into infinite loops bargaining back and forth. The buyer and seller agents range from using hardcoded logic to rule-based inferencing in their negotiation strategies. However these agents must support some communication skills using KQML or FIPA-ACL. So in contrast with other approaches to multi-agent negotiation, we introduce an explicit mediator (market place manager) into the negotiation, and we propose a mediation process based on dependence theory [1] implemented by the manager.