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An evolutionary learning approach for adaptive negotiation agents

✍ Scribed by Raymond Y.K. Lau; Maolin Tang; On Wong; Stephen W. Milliner; Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 350 KB
Volume: 21
Category: Article
ISSN: 0884-8173
DOI: 10.1002/int.20120

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✦ Synopsis

Developing effective and efficient negotiation mechanisms for real-world applications such as e-business is challenging because negotiations in such a context are characterized by combinatorially complex negotiation spaces, tough deadlines, very limited information about the opponents, and volatile negotiator preferences. Accordingly, practical negotiation systems should be empowered by effective learning mechanisms to acquire dynamic domain knowledge from the possibly changing negotiation contexts. This article illustrates our adaptive negotiation agents, which are underpinned by robust evolutionary learning mechanisms to deal with complex and dynamic negotiation contexts. Our experimental results show that GA-based adaptive negotiation agents outperform a theoretically optimal negotiation mechanism that guarantees Pareto optimal. Our research work opens the door to the development of practical negotiation systems for real-world applications.

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