Efficient Multi-alternative Protocol for Multi-attribute Agent Negotiation

Jakub Brzostowski, Ryszard Kowalczyk

2012

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel multi-alternative negotiation protocol for multi-attribute agent negotiations. It allows for improvement of negotiation outcomes in terms of time needed to reach an agreement and the Pareto optimality of the outcome. By allowing the agent to offer a proposal comprising a set of alternatives we eliminate the problem of making trade-offs in the negotiation. We experimentally evaluate the proposed approach to show how it performs in comparison to a typical negotiation protocol.

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Brzostowski J. and Kowalczyk R. (2012). Efficient Multi-alternative Protocol for Multi-attribute Agent Negotiation . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-10-5, pages 247-252. DOI: 10.5220/0003968102470252


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@conference{iceis12,
author={Jakub Brzostowski and Ryszard Kowalczyk},
title={Efficient Multi-alternative Protocol for Multi-attribute Agent Negotiation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={247-252},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003968102470252},
isbn={978-989-8565-10-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Efficient Multi-alternative Protocol for Multi-attribute Agent Negotiation
SN - 978-989-8565-10-5
AU - Brzostowski J.
AU - Kowalczyk R.
PY - 2012
SP - 247
EP - 252
DO - 10.5220/0003968102470252