Advances in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ito, Takayuki (Editor), Zhang, Minjie (Editor), Robu, Valentin (Editor), Fatima, Shaheen (Editor), Matsuo, Tokuro (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 233
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

Complex Automated Negotiations have been widely studied and are becoming an important, emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. In general, automated negotiations can be complex, since there are a lot of factors that characterize such negotiations. These factors inclu...

Table of Contents:

• The Prediction of Partners’ Behaviors in Self-interested Agents
• Sequential Auctions for Common Value Objects with Budget Constrained Bidders
• A Comparative Study of Argumentation- and Proposal-Based Negotiation
• The Blind Leading the Blind: A Third-Party Model for Bilateral Multi-issue Negotiations under Incomplete Information
• Using Clustering Techniques to Improve Fuzzy Constraint Based Automated Purchase Negotiations
• Assess Your Opponent: A Bayesian Process for Preference Observation in Multi-attribute Negotiations
• Designing Risk-Averse Bidding Strategies in Sequential Auctions for Transportation Orders
• CPN-Based State Analysis and Prediction for Multi-agent Scheduling and Planning
• Adaptive Commitment Management Strategy Profiles for Concurrent Negotiations
• Analyses of Task Allocation Based on Credit Constraints
• Erratum: The Prediction of Partners’ Behaviors in Self-interested Agents.