A Comparison of some Negotiation Algorithms using a Tournament-Based Approach


Henderson, Peter, Crouch, Stephen, Walters, Robert John and Ni, Qinglai, Kowalcyzk, R, Muller, J.P, Tianfield, H and Unland, R (eds.) (2003) A Comparison of some Negotiation Algorithms using a Tournament-Based Approach. Agent Technologies, Infrastructure, Tools, and Applications for E-Services, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2592, 137-150.

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This paper provides some results and analysis of several negotiation algorithms. We have used a tournament-based approach to evaluation and applied this within a community of Buyers and Sellers in a simulated car hire scenario. An automated negotiation environment has been developed and the various negotiation algorithms made to compete against each other. In a single tournament, each algorithm was used as both a Buyer-negotiator and a Seller-negotiator. Each negotiating algorithm accommodates the parameters for negotiation as a set of desirable goals, represented as examples of product specifications. It was the task of each negotiating algorithm to get the best deal possible from every one of their opposites (i.e. Buyer versus Seller) in the sense of being close to the examples they were given as goals. One algorithm proved to be superior to the others against which it was made to compete.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Event Dates: October 7th-10th, 2002
ISBNs: 3540007423
ISSNs: 0302-9743
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Keywords: multi-agent systems automated negotiation enterprise systems
Divisions: Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science
Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Electronic & Software Systems
Item ID: 257426
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2003
Last Modified: 02 Mar 2012 11:38
Contributors: Henderson, Peter (Author)
Crouch, Stephen (Author)
Walters, Robert John (Author)
Ni, Qinglai (Author)
Kowalcyzk, R (Editor)
Muller, J.P (Editor)
Tianfield, H (Editor)
Unland, R (Editor)
Date: 2003
Additional Information: Event Dates: October 7th-10th, 2002
Status: Published
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/257426

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