Advances in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ito, Takayuki. (Editor), Zhang, Minjie. (Editor), Robu, Valentin. (Editor), Fatima, Shaheen. (Editor), Matsuo, Tokuro. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 233
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Engineering mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
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Complex Automated Negotiations have been widely studied and are becoming an important, emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. In general, automated negotiations can be complex, since there are a lot of factors that characterize such negotiations. These factors inclu...

Table of Contents:

• The Prediction of Partners Behaviors in Self-Interested Agents
• Sequential Auctions for Common Value Objects with Budget Constrained Bidders
• A Comparative Study of Argumentation- and Proposal-based Negotiation
• The Blind Leading the Blind: A Third-Party Model for Bilateral Multi-Issue Negotiations under Incomplete Information
• Using Clustering Techniques to Improve Fuzzy Constraint Based Automated Purchase Negotiations
• Assess Your Opponent: A Bayesian Process for Preference Observation in Multi-Attribute Negotiations
• Designing risk-averse bidding strategies in sequential auctions for transportation orders
• CPN-Based State Analysis and Prediction for Multi-Agent Scheduling and Planning
• Adaptive Commitment Management Strategy Profiles for Concurrent Negotiations
• Analyses of Task Allocation based on Credit Constraints.