Next Frontier in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiation

✍ Scribed by Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Valentin Robu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Tokyo
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 596
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on automated negotiations based on multi-agent systems. It is intended for researchers and students in various fields involving autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, such as e-commerce tools, decision-making and negotiation support systems, and collaboration tools. The contents will help them to understand the concept of automated negotiations, negotiation protocols, negotiating agents’ strategies, and the applications of those strategies. In this book, some negotiation protocols focusing on the multiple interdependent issues in negotiations are presented, making it possible to find high-quality solutions for the complex agents’ utility functions. This book is a compilation of the extended versions of the very best papers selected from the many that were presented at the International Workshop on Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Toward a Framework for Implementing and Analyzing Meta-strategies on Simultaneous Negotiations....Pages 3-18
A Negotiation Method for Task Allocation with Time Constraints in Open Grid Environments....Pages 19-36
Adjustable Fuzzy Inference for Adaptive Grid Resource Negotiation....Pages 37-57
Automated Negotiations Based on Monotonic Tree Representations....Pages 59-72
Effects of GA Based Mediation Protocol for Utilities that Change Over Time....Pages 73-87
First Steps in Chat-Based Negotiating Agents....Pages 89-109
Federated Cloud-Based Resource Allocation by Automated Negotiations Using Strategy Changes....Pages 111-125
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
The Fourth Automated Negotiation Competition....Pages 129-136
AgentKF: Automated Negotiating Agent with Strategy Adaptation....Pages 137-142
The Fawkes Agent—the ANAC 2013 Negotiation Contest Winner....Pages 143-151

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing