New Trends 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, 2012.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 383
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Complex Automated Negotiations represent an important, emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Automated negotiations can be complex, since there are a lot of factors that characterize such negotiations. These factors include the number of issues, dependencies betwee...

Table of Contents:

• From the content: The Effect of Preference Representation on Learning Preferences in Negotiation
• Bilateral Single-Issue Negotiation Model Considering Nonlinear Utility and Time Constraint
• The Effect of Grouping Issues in Multiple Interdependent Issues Negotiation based on Cone-Constraints
• Automated Agents that Proficiently Negotiate with People: Can We Keep People out of the Evaluation Loop
• Matchmaking in Multi-attribute Auctions using a Genetic Algorithm and a Particle Swarm Approach.