Learning about the opponent in automated bilateral negotiation: a comprehensive survey of opponent modeling techniques

T Baarslag, MJC Hendrikx, KV Hindriks… - Autonomous Agents and …, 2016‏ - Springer
A negotiation between agents is typically an incomplete information game, where the agents
initially do not know their opponent's preferences or strategy. This poses a challenge, as …

Neighborhood-level coordination and negotiation techniques for managing demand-side flexibility in residential microgrids

M Hu, F **ao, S Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The management of demand-side flexibility plays a key role in reliable integration of
intermittent renewable energy sources into residential microgrids. Residential microgrid is a …

Open problems in cooperative AI

A Dafoe, E Hughes, Y Bachrach, T Collins… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
Problems of cooperation--in which agents seek ways to jointly improve their welfare--are
ubiquitous and important. They can be found at scales ranging from our daily routines--such …

Distributed constraint optimization problems and applications: A survey

F Fioretto, E Pontelli, W Yeoh - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018‏ - jair.org
The field of multi-agent system (MAS) is an active area of research within artificial
intelligence, with an increasingly important impact in industrial and other real-world …

[PDF][PDF] Automated negotiation: prospects, methods and challenges

NR Jennings, P Faratin, AR Lomuscio… - … Journal of Group …, 2001‏ - eprints.soton.ac.uk
An increasing number of computer systems are being viewed in terms of autonomous
agents. There are two main drivers to this trend. Firstly, agents are being advocated as a …

Using similarity criteria to make issue trade-offs in automated negotiations

P Faratin, C Sierra, NR Jennings - artificial Intelligence, 2002‏ - Elsevier
Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple
autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an …

A survey of collectives

K Tumer, D Wolpert - Collectives and the design of complex systems, 2004‏ - Springer
Due to the increasing sophistication and miniaturization of computational components,
complex, distributed systems of interacting agents are becoming ubiquitous. Such systems …

Game theory and decision theory in multi-agent systems

S Parsons, M Wooldridge - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2002‏ - Springer
In the last few years, there has been increasing interest from the agent community in the use
of techniques from decision theory and game theory. Our aims in this article are firstly to …

Autonomous agents for business process management

NR Jennings, TJ Norman, P Faratin… - Applied Artificial …, 2000‏ - Taylor & Francis
Traditional approaches to managing business processes are often inadequate for large-
scale, organisation-wide, dynamic settings. However, since Internet and Intranet …

An introduction to collective intelligence

DH Wolpert, K Tumer - arxiv preprint cs/9908014, 1999‏ - arxiv.org
This paper surveys the emerging science of how to design a``COllective
INtelligence''(COIN). A COIN is a large multi-agent system where:(i) There is little to no …