Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems

✍ Scribed by Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Liang Gui Tang, Chun Yan Miao, Zhi Qi Shen, Dai Jie Cheng (auth.), Associate Professor Takayuki Ito, Assistant Professor Hiromitsu Hattori, Associate Professor Minjie Zhang, Associate Professor Tokuro Matsuo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 89
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses all aspects of negotiation mechanisms in multi-agent systems, including Multi-Issue Negotiations, Concurrent Negotiations, Strategy-proof Mechanisms, Rational Argumentation, Auctions and Voting, and so on. These issues are being explored by researchers from different communities in Multi-Agent systems. They are, for instance, being studied in agent negotiation, multi-issue negotiations, auctions, mechanism design, electronic commerce, voting, secure protocols, matchmaking & brokering, argumentation, and co-operation mechanisms. This workshop will bring together researchers from these communities to learn about each other ’s approaches, form long-term collaborations, and cross-fertilize the different areas to accelerate progress towards scaling up to larger and more realistic applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Negotiation Agents' Decision Making Using Markov Chains....Pages 3-23
A Multi-Issue Negotiation Protocol Among Nonlinear Utility Agents: A Preliminary Report....Pages 25-38
A Decentralized Model for Multi-Attribute Negotiations with Incomplete Information and General Utility Functions....Pages 39-57
A General Model for Pareto Optimal Multi-Attribute Negotiations....Pages 59-80
Cooperation-Based Multilateral Multi-Issue Negotiation for Crisis Management....Pages 81-100
A Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach for Flexible Self-Interested Agent Team Forming....Pages 101-113
A Novel Group Signature Scheme Based on Bilinear Pairings and Gap Diffie–Hellman Group....Pages 117-125
Experimental Evaluation of Possibilistic Mechanism for Negotiation Partners Selection....Pages 127-145
Constructing the Structure of Utility Graphs Used in Multi-Item Negotiation Through Collaborative Filtering of Aggregate Buyer Preferences....Pages 147-168
Asynchronous Constraint-Based Approach: New Solution for any Constraint Problem....Pages 169-184

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)