Novel Insights in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiation

✍ Scribed by Ivan Marsa-Maestre, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Quan Bai, Katsuhide Fujita (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 535
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on all aspects of complex automated negotiations, which are studied in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. This book consists of two parts. I: Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations and II: Automated Negotiation Agents Competition. The chapters in Part I are extended versions of papers presented at the 2012 international workshop on Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiation (ACAN), after peer reviews by three Program Committee members. Part II examines in detail ANAC 2012 (The Third Automated Negotiating Agents Competition), in which automated agents that have different negotiation strategies and are implemented by different developers are automatically negotiated in the several negotiation domains. ANAC is an international competition in which automated negotiation strategies, submitted by a number of universities and research institutes across the world, are evaluated in tournament style. The purpose of the competition is to steer the research in the area of bilateral multi-issue, closed negotiation. This book also includes the rules, results, agents and domain descriptions for ANAC 2011 as submitted by the organizers and finalists.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Intra-Team Strategies for Teams Negotiating Against Competitor, Matchers, and Conceders....Pages 3-22
Alternative Social Welfare Definitions for Multiparty Negotiation Protocols....Pages 23-41
Multilateral Mediated Negotiation Protocols with Feedback....Pages 43-59
Decoupling Negotiating Agents to Explore the Space of Negotiation Strategies....Pages 61-83
A Dynamic, Optimal Approach for Multi-Issue Negotiation Under Time Constraints....Pages 85-108
On Dynamic Negotiation Strategy for Concurrent Negotiation over Distinct Objects....Pages 109-124
Reducing the Complexity of Negotiations Over Interdependent Issues....Pages 125-135
Evaluation of the Reputation Network Using Realistic Distance Between Facebook Data....Pages 137-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
An Overview of the Results and Insights from the Third Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2012)....Pages 151-162
An Adaptive Negotiation Strategy for Real-Time Bilateral Negotiations....Pages 163-170
CUHKAgent: An Adaptive Negotiation Strategy for Bilateral Negotiations over Multiple Items....Pages 171-179
AgentMR: Concession Strategy Based on Heuristic for Automated Negotiating Agents....Pages 181-185
OMAC: A Discrete Wavelet Transformation Based Negotiation Agent....Pages 187-196
The Simple-Meta Agent....Pages 197-200
Back Matter....Pages 201-204

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Complexity