Complex Automated Negotiations: Theories, Models, and Software Competitions

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-13

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2. Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Consortium Formation Using a Consensus Policy Based Negotiation Framework

      • Enrique de la Hoz, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Mark Klein, Ivan Marsa-Maestre

      Pages 3-22

   3. The Effect of Grouping Issues in Multiple Interdependent Issues Negotiation between Exaggerator Agents

      • Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito, Mark Klein

      Pages 23-39

   4. Efficient Deal Identification for the Constraints Based Utility Space Model

      • Raiye Hailu, Takayuki Ito

      Pages 41-53

   5. Agreement among Agents Based on Decisional Structures and Its Application to Group Formation

      • Rafik Hadfi, Takayuki Ito

      Pages 55-73

   6. An Adaptive Bilateral Negotiation Model Based on Bayesian Learning

      • Chao Yu, Fenghui Ren, Minjie Zhang

      Pages 75-93

   7. Acceptance Conditions in Automated Negotiation

      • Tim Baarslag, Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker

      Pages 95-111

   8. Heuristic-Based Approaches for CP-Nets in Negotiation

      • Reyhan Aydoğan, Tim Baarslag, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Pınar Yolum

      Pages 113-123

   9. An Implementation of Collective Collaboration Support System Based on Automated Multi-agent Negotiation

      • Mikoto Okumura, Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito

      Pages 125-141

   10. A Qualitative Ascending Protocol for Multi-issue One-to-Many Negotiations

       • Liviu Dan Sęrban, Cristina Maria Ştefanache, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi, Cristian Marius Litan

       Pages 143-159

   11. Iterative, Incremental and Evolving EAF-Based Negotiation Process

       • Paulo Maio, Nuno Silva, José Cardoso

       Pages 161-179

3. Automated Negotiating Agents Competition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. The Second Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2011)

      • Katsuhide Fujita, Takayuki Ito, Tim Baarslag, Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker, Sarit Kraus et al.

      Pages 183-197

   3. Value Model Agent: A Novel Preference Profiler for Negotiation with Agents

      • Asaf Frieder, Gal Miller

      Pages 199-203

   4. Gahboninho: Strategy for Balancing Pressure and Compromise in Automated Negotiation

      • Mai Ben Adar, Nadav Sofy, Avshalom Elimelech

      Pages 205-208

   5. IAMhaggler2011: A Gaussian Process Regression Based Negotiation Agent

      • Colin R. Williams, Valentin Robu, Enrico H. Gerding, Nicholas R. Jennings

      Pages 209-212

   6. BRAM Agent

      • Radmila Fishel, Maya Bercovitch, Ya’akov (Kobi) Gal

      Pages 213-216

   7. TheNegotiator: A Dynamic Strategy for Bilateral Negotiations with Time-Based Discounts

      • A. S. Y. Dirkzwager, M. J. C. Hendrikx, J. R. De Ruiter

      Pages 217-221

   8. HardHeaded

      • Thijs van Krimpen, Daphne Looije, Siamak Hajizadeh

      Pages 223-227

Complex Automated Negotiations are a widely studied, 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. For this book, we solicited papers on all aspects of such complex automated negotiations, which are studied in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. This book includes two parts, which are Part I: Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations and Part II: Automated Negotiation Agents Competition. Each chapter in Part I is an extended version of ACAN 2011 papers after peer reviews by three PC members. Part II includes ANAC 2011 (The Second Automated Negotiating Agents Competition), in which automated agents who have different negotiation strategies and implemented by different developers are automatically negotiate in the several negotiation domains. ANAC is an international competition in which automated negotiation strategies, submitted by a number of universities and research institutes across the world, are evaluated in a tournament style. The purpose of the competition is to steer the research in the area of bilateral multi-issue, closed negotiation. This book includes rules, results, agents and domains descriptions for ANAC2011 submitted by organizers and finalists.

• Complex Automated Negotiations
• Computational Intelligence

• Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Showa, Japan

  Takayuki Ito

• School of Information Technology &, Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

  Minjie Zhang

• , School of Electronics and Computer Scien, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  Valentin Robu

• Industrial Technology, Advanced Institute of, Shinagawa, Japan

  Tokuro Matsuo

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