Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Rules of encounter: designing conventions for automated negotiation among computers
Empirical methods for artificial intelligence
Empirical methods for artificial intelligence
Leveled commitment contracts with myopic and strategic agents
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Reasoning about commitments and penalties for coordination between autonomous agents
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Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments
Intelligent agents for automated one-to-many e-commerce negotiation
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Sharing Metainformation to Guide Cooperative Search Among Heterogeneous Reusable Agents
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AutONA: a system for automated multiple 1-1 negotiation
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Coordinating Multiple Concurrent Negotiations
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A heuristic model for concurrent bi-lateral negotiations in incomplete information settings
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Concurrent Multiple-Issue Negotiation for Internet-Based Services
IEEE Internet Computing
An extended protocol for multiple-issue concurrent negotiation
AAAI'05 Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Managing commitments in multiple concurrent negotiations
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Concurrent negotiation and coordination for grid resource coallocation
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics - Special issue on game theory
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Automated negotiation by software agents is a key enabling technology for agent mediated e-commerce. To this end, this paper considers an important class of such negotiations - namely those in which an agent engages in multiple concurrent bilateral negotiations for a good or service. In particular, we consider the situation in which a buyer agent is looking for a single service provider from a number of available ones in its environment. By bargaining simultaneously with these providers and interleaving partial agreements that it makes with them, a buyer can reach good deals in an efficient manner. However, a key problem in such encounters is managing commitments since an agent may want to make intermediate deals (so that it has a definite agreement) with other agents before it gets to finalize a deal at the end of the encounter. To do this effectively, however, the agents need to have a flexible model of commitments that they can reason about in order to determine when to commit and to decommit. This paper provides and evaluates such a commitment manager and integrates it into the negotiation model.