N.R.: A Software Framework for Automated Negotiation

N.R.: A Software Framework for Automated Negotiation (2005)

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by Claudio Bartolini , Chris Preist , Nicholas R. Jennings

Venue:	In: Proceedings of SELMAS’2004, LNCS 3390
Citations:	31 - 2 self

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TITLE	N.R.: A Software Framework for Automated Negotiation	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Claudio Bartolini	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	1 HP Laboratories. Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	CA 94304, USA	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Chris Preist	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	1 HP Laboratories. Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	CA 94304, USA	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Nicholas R. Jennings	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	1 HP Laboratories. Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	CA 94304, USA	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Abstract. If agents are to negotiate automatically with one another they must share a negotiation mechanism, specifying what possible actions each party can take at any given time, when negotiation terminates, and what is the structure of the resulting agreements. Current standardization activities such as FIPA [2] and WS-Agreement [3] represent this as a negotiation protocol specifying the flow of messages. However, they omit other aspects of the rules of negotiation (such as obliging a participant to improve on a previous offer), requiring these to be represented implicitly in an agent’s design, potentially resulting incompatibility, maintenance and re-usability problems. In this chapter, we propose an alternative approach, allowing all of a mechanism to be formal and explicit. We present (i) a taxonomy of declarative rules which can be used to capture a wide variety of negotiation mechanisms in a principled and well-structured way; (ii) a simple interaction protocol, which is able to support any mechanism which can be captured using the declarative rules; (iii) a software framework for negotiation that allows agents to effectively participate in negotiations defined using our rule taxonomy and protocol and (iv) a language for expressing aspects of the negotiation based on OWL-Lite [4]. We provide examples of some of the mechanisms that the framework can support. 1	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	2005	INFERENCE
VENUE	In: Proceedings of SELMAS’2004, LNCS 3390	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	213--235	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	30 found	ParsCit 1.0