Combinatorial auctions for supply chain formation
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Distributed sensor network for real time tracking
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Preference elicitation in combinatorial auctions
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
Taming the Computational Complexity of Combinatorial Auctions: Optimal and Approximate Approaches
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Improved Algorithms for Optimal Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions and Generalizations
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Evolving Real-Time Local Agent Control for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
A Combinatorial Auction for Collaborative Planning
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Sophisticated negotiation in multi-agent systems
Sophisticated negotiation in multi-agent systems
Dynamic Multi-Linked Negotiations in Multi-Echelon Production Scheduling Networks
IAT '06 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
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
Meta-level coordination for solving negotiation chains in semi-cooperative multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Enabling open-source cognitively-controlled collaboration among software-defined radio nodes
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Negotiation among autonomous computational agents: principles, analysis and challenges
Artificial Intelligence Review
An extended protocol for multiple-issue concurrent negotiation
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Strategic agents for multi-resource negotiation
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Towards service coalitions: coordinating the commitments in a workflow
MATES'05 Proceedings of the Third German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
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A Multi-linked negotiation problem occurs when an agent needs to negotiate with multiple other agents about different subjects (tasks, conflicts, or resource requirements), and the negotiation over one subject has influence on negotiations over other subjects. The solution of the multi-linked negotiations problem will become increasingly important for the next generation of advanced multi-agent systems. However, most current negotiation research looks only at a single negotiation and thus does not present techniques to manage and reason about multi-linked negotiations. In this paper, we first 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 negotiations. Next, we introduce a formalized model of the multi-linked negotiation problem. Based on this model, a heuristic search algorithm is developed for finding a near-optimal ordering of negotiation issues and their parameters. Using this algorithm, an agent can evaluate and compare different negotiation approaches and choose the best one. We show how an agent uses this technology to effectively manage interacting negotiation issues. Experimental work is presented which shows the efficiency of this approach.