Partial constraint satisfaction
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on constraint-based reasoning
Modern heuristic techniques for combinatorial problems
Modern heuristic techniques for combinatorial problems
A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World-Wide Web
AGENTS '97 Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents
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
SICS MarketSpace - An Agent-Based Market Infrastructure
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
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
Sequencing of Contract Types for Anytime Task Reallocation
AMET '98 Selected Papers from the First International Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce
Negotiation among self-interested computationally limited agents
Negotiation among self-interested computationally limited agents
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Solving time-dependent planning problems
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Where the really hard problems are
IJCAI'91 Proceedings of the 12th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Advantages of a leveled commitment contracting protocol
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Simulating Internet-based collaboration: A cost-benefit case study using a multi-agent model
Decision Support Systems
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We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variety of types of transactions, from simple buying and selling of goods and services to complex multi-agent contract negotiations. In the latter case, MAGNET is designed to negotiate contracts based on temporal and precedence constraints, and includes facilities for dealing with time-based contingencies. One responsibility of a customer agent in the MAGNET system is to select an optimal bid combination. We present an efficient anytime algorithm for a customer agent to select bids submitted by supplier agents in response to a call for bids. Bids might include combinations of subtasks and might include discounts for combinations. In an experimental study we explore the behavior of the algorithm based on the interactions of factors such as bid prices, number of bids, and number of subtasks. The results of experiments we present show that the algorithm is extremely efficient even for large number of bids.