A hybrid negotiation strategy mechanism in an automated negotiation system
Sheng Zhang, Song Ye, Fillia S. Makedon, James Ford · 2004
This paper describes a hybrid negotiation strategy mechanism using a strategy pool framework that allows negotiation agents more flexibility and robustness in an automated negotiation system. The strategy pool framework supports: a) dynamically assigning an appropriate negotiation strategy to a negotiation agent according to the current negotiation environment and b) creating new negotiation rules by learning from past negotiations. Learning forms we use here for the framework are Feed Forward Back Propagation (FFBP) neural networks and multidimensional inter-transaction association rules mining.