Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ito, Takayuki (Editor), Hattori, Hiromitsu (Editor), Zhang, Minjie (Editor), Matsuo, Tokuro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 89
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This book addresses all aspects of negotiation mechanisms in multi-agent systems, including Multi-Issue Negotiations, Concurrent Negotiations, Strategy-proof Mechanisms, Rational Argumentation, Auctions and Voting, and so on. These issues are being explored by researchers from different communities...

Table of Contents:

• Theories for Complex Multi-Agent Systems
• Negotiation Agents' Decision Making Using Markov Chains
• A Multi-Issue Negotiation Protocol Among Nonlinear Utility Agents: A Preliminary Report
• A Decentralized Model for Multi-Attribute Negotiations with Incomplete Information and General Utility Functions
• A General Model for Pareto Optimal Multi-Attribute Negotiations
• Cooperation-Based Multilateral Multi-Issue Negotiation for Crisis Management
• A Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach for Flexible Self-Interested Agent Team Forming
• Practical Approach for Complex Multi-Agent Systems
• A Novel Group Signature Scheme Based on Bilinear Pairings and Gap Diffie–Hellman Group
• Experimental Evaluation of Possibilistic Mechanism for Negotiation Partners Selection
• Constructing the Structure of Utility Graphs Used in Multi-Item Negotiation Through Collaborative Filtering of Aggregate Buyer Preferences
• Asynchronous Constraint-Based Approach: New Solution for any Constraint Problem.