Decoupling negotiating agents to explore the space of negotiation strategies
Decoupling negotiating agents to explore the space of negotiation strategies
Every year, automated negotiation agents are improving on various domains. However, given a set of automated negotiation agents, current methods allow to determine which strategy is best in terms of utility, but not so much the reason of success. In order to study the performance of the individual components of a negotiation strategy, we introduce an architecture that distinguishes three components which together constitute a negotiation strategy: the bidding strategy, the opponent model, and the acceptance strategy. Our contribution to the field of bilateral negotiation is twofold: first, we show that existing state-of-the-art agents are compatible with this architecture by re-implementing them in the new framework; secondly, as an application of our architecture, we systematically explore the space of possible strategies by recombining different strategy components, resulting in negotiation strategies that improve upon the current state-of-the-art in automated negotiation.
acceptance condition, automated bilateral negotiation, bidding strategy, BOA architecture, component-based, opponent model
978-4-431-54757-0
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Baarslag, Tim
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Baarslag, Tim
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Baarslag, Tim, Hindriks, Koen, Hendrikx, Mark, Dirkzwager, Alex and Jonker, Catholijn
(2014)
Decoupling negotiating agents to explore the space of negotiation strategies.
In,
Marsa-Maestre, Ivan, Lopez-Carmona, Miguel A., Ito, Takayuki, Zhang, Minjie, Bai, Quan and Fujita, Katsuhide
(eds.)
Novel Insights in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiation.
(Studies in Computational Intelligence, 535)
Tokyo, JP.
Springer, .
(doi:10.1007/978-4-431-54758-7_4).
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Abstract
Every year, automated negotiation agents are improving on various domains. However, given a set of automated negotiation agents, current methods allow to determine which strategy is best in terms of utility, but not so much the reason of success. In order to study the performance of the individual components of a negotiation strategy, we introduce an architecture that distinguishes three components which together constitute a negotiation strategy: the bidding strategy, the opponent model, and the acceptance strategy. Our contribution to the field of bilateral negotiation is twofold: first, we show that existing state-of-the-art agents are compatible with this architecture by re-implementing them in the new framework; secondly, as an application of our architecture, we systematically explore the space of possible strategies by recombining different strategy components, resulting in negotiation strategies that improve upon the current state-of-the-art in automated negotiation.
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Published date: 24 January 2014
Keywords:
acceptance condition, automated bilateral negotiation, bidding strategy, BOA architecture, component-based, opponent model
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/373770
ISBN: 978-4-431-54757-0
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Tim Baarslag
Author:
Koen Hindriks
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Mark Hendrikx
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Alex Dirkzwager
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Catholijn Jonker
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Ivan Marsa-Maestre
Editor:
Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona
Editor:
Takayuki Ito
Editor:
Minjie Zhang
Editor:
Quan Bai
Editor:
Katsuhide Fujita
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