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Yushu: A Heuristic-Based Agent for Automated Negotiating Competition

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New Trends in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations

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This article analyzes important issues regarding the design of a successful negotiation agent for ANAC and presents the design of Yushu, one of the top-scoring agents in the first Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC). Yushu uses simple heuristics to implement a conservative concession strategy based on a dynamically computed measure of competitiveness and number of negotiations rounds left before the deadline.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    Bo An & Victor Lesser

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Nagoya, Showa, 466-8555, Japan

    Takayuki Ito

  2. School of Information Technology &, Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, 2522, New South Wales, Australia

    Minjie Zhang

  3. , School of Electronics and Computer Scien, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom

    Valentin Robu

  4. Dept. Computer Studies, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics., LE11 3TU, United Kingdom

    Shaheen Fatima

  5. School of Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Yamagata University, Jonan 4-3-16, Yonezawa, 992-8510, Japan

    Tokuro Matsuo

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An, B., Lesser, V. (2012). Yushu: A Heuristic-Based Agent for Automated Negotiating Competition. In: Ito, T., Zhang, M., Robu, V., Fatima, S., Matsuo, T. (eds) New Trends in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24696-8_9

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