Multiagent negotiation under time constraints
Artificial Intelligence
Negotiation and cooperation in multi-agent environments
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on economic principles of multi-agent systems
Communications of the ACM
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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
Cooperative vs. Competitive Multi-Agent Negotiations in Retail Electronic Commerce
CIA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents II, Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet
Agent-Mediated Integrative Negotiation for Retail Electronic Commerce
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
Determining Successful Negotiation Strategies: An Evolutionary Approach
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Developing a Generic Concept of an Electronic Negotiation Process with ebXML
NODe '02 Revised Papers from the International Conference NetObjectDays on Objects, Components, Architectures, Services, and Applications for a Networked World
A Classification Structure for Automated Negotiations
WI-IATW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Bargaining Power in Electronic Negotiations: A Bilateral Negotiation Mechanism
EC-Web '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
Negotiation in electronic commerce: a study in the Latin-American market
KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part II
A Fuzzy Logic System for Bargaining in Information Markets
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
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One of the main issues in electronic commerce is the inclusion of the negotiation facilities commonly available in human client-vendor interaction in real world commerce. E-commerce negotiation processes have usually been modeled as self-interested multi-agent systems. In these systems buyers and sellers are represented by agents that have opposite demands and decide what to do on the flight, based on the available information. However, currently ecommerce systems, such as Kasbah and Magma [21], provide a small number of bilateral negotiation facilities. Fortunately, some general negotiation models could be at first applied to e-commerce domain. This is typically the case of Faratin's model, which can be seen as an extension of Kasbah's. In this paper, we propose an original bilateral agent negotiation model, which extends Faratin's one. We introduce various facilities, such as alternative product suggestion, ultimatum generation, local contract agreements, etc. These facilities intend to grant users with a more flexible e-commerce environment. We present our model formalization, including the knowledge base that determines agent behavior. Some empirical validation is also presented to the case of computer purchase.