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Determining Successful Negotiation Strategies: An Evolutionary Approach

Determining Successful Negotiation Strategies: An Evolutionary Approach
Determining Successful Negotiation Strategies: An Evolutionary Approach
To be successful in open, multi-agent environments, autonomous agents must be capable of adapting their negotiation strategies and tactics to their prevailing circumstances. To this end, we present an empirical study showing the relative success of different strategies against different types of opponent in different environments. In particular, we adopt an evolutionary approach in which strategies and tactics correspond to the genetic material in a genetic algorithm. We conduct a series of experiments to determine the most successful strategies and to see how and when these strategies evolve depending on the context and negotiation stance of the agent’s opponent.
182-189
Matos, N.
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Sierra, C.
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Sierra, C.
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Matos, N., Sierra, C. and Jennings, N. R. (1998) Determining Successful Negotiation Strategies: An Evolutionary Approach. 3rd Int. Conf. on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98), Paris, France. pp. 182-189 .

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Abstract

To be successful in open, multi-agent environments, autonomous agents must be capable of adapting their negotiation strategies and tactics to their prevailing circumstances. To this end, we present an empirical study showing the relative success of different strategies against different types of opponent in different environments. In particular, we adopt an evolutionary approach in which strategies and tactics correspond to the genetic material in a genetic algorithm. We conduct a series of experiments to determine the most successful strategies and to see how and when these strategies evolve depending on the context and negotiation stance of the agent’s opponent.

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Published date: 1998
Venue - Dates: 3rd Int. Conf. on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98), Paris, France, 1998-01-01
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 252163
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/252163
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Date deposited: 03 Dec 2002
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 05:17

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Author: N. Matos
Author: C. Sierra
Author: N. R. Jennings

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