Designing Responsive and Deliberative Automated Negotiators
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jennings · ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 1999
In this paper we present a multi issue negotiation model which can be used for guiding agents during distributed problem solving. This model is composed of protocols which govern and manage agent interactions, and an agent architecture which represents decision mechanisms which assist agents during distributed problem solving processes. keywords: Negotiation, Agent Architecture Introduction Automated agents are autonomous entities which decide for themselves what, when, and under what conditions their actions should be performed. Since agents have no direct control over others, they must persuade others to act in a particular manner. The type of persuasion we consider in this paper is negotiation which we define as a process by which a joint decision is made by two or more parties. The parties first verbalise contradictory demands and then move towards agreements, (Pruitt 1981). Furthermore, negotiating agents may populate different types of environments which require either a very s...