Negotiation in distributed artificial intelligence: drawing from human experience
Kersten, Szpakowicz · 1994
Distributed artificial intelligence and cooperative problem solving deal with agents who allocate resources, make joint decisions and develop plans. Negotiation may be important for interacting agents who make sequential decisions. We discuss the use of negotiation in conflict resolution in distributed AI and select those elements of human negotiations that can help artificial agents better to resolve conflicts. Problem evolution, a basic aspect of negotiation, can be represented using the restructurable modelling method of developing decision support systems. Restructurable modelling is implemented in the knowledge-based generic decision analysis and simulation system Negoplan. Experiments show that Negoplan can effectively help resolve individual and group conflicts in negotiation.>