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 …

Multi-agent systems (MASs) is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes
the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexities arising …

This paper presents an in-depth analysis and the key insights gained from the Second
International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2011). ANAC is an …

With an increasing number of applications in the context of multi-agent systems, automated
negotiation is a rapidly growing area. Written by top researchers in the field, this state-of-the …

Digital collections are increasingly used for a variety of purposes. In Europe only, we can
conservatively estimate that tens of thousands of users consult digital libraries daily. The …

Negotiation is a complex process. The decision making involved in several stages of
negotiation makes its automation complex. In this paper we present a lifecycle model of a …

The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly
defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic treatment of …

Negotiation is a complex problem, in which the variety of settings and opponents that may
be encountered prohibits the use of a single predefined negotiation strategy. Hence the …

Negotiation is a core activity between stakeholders with different goals. This paper offers a
solution based on the automated bilateral negotiation model using a recent meta-heuristic …

Agents in a negotiation may have to negotiate multiple issues simultaneously. Automated
multi-attribute negotiation provides an important mechanism for distributed decision makers …