Ito T., Zhang M., Robu V., Matsuo T. (Eds.) Complex Automated Negotiations: Theories, Models, and Software Competitions

Springer, 2013. — 238 p. — (Studies in Computational Intelligence 435). — ISBN: 978-3-642-30736-2.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.Consortium Formation Using a Consensus Policy Based Negotiation Framework
The Effect of Grouping Issues in Multiple Interdependent Issues Negotiation between Exaggerator Agents
Efficient Deal Identification for the Constraints Based Utility Space Model
Agreement among Agents Based on Decisional Structures and Its Application to Group Formation
An Adaptive Bilateral Negotiation Model Based on Bayesian Learning
Acceptance Conditions in Automated Negotiation
Heuristic-Based Approaches for CP-Nets in Negotiation
An Implementation of Collective Collaboration Support System Based on Automated Multi-agent Negotiation
A Qualitative Ascending Protocol for Multi-issue One-to-Many Negotiations
Iterative, Incremental and Evolving EAF-Based Negotiation Process
The Second Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2011)
Value Model Agent: A Novel Preference Profiler for Negotiation with Agents
Gahboninho: Strategy for Balancing Pressure and Compromise in Automated Negotiation
IAMhaggler2011: A Gaussian Process Regression Based Negotiation Agent
BRAM Agent
TheNegotiator: A Dynamic Strategy for Bilateral Negotiations with Time-Based Discounts
HardHeaded
A Tit for Tat Negotiation Strategy for Real-Time Bilateral Negotiations
AgentK2: Compromising Strategy Based on Estimated Maximum Utility for Automated Negotiating Agents