A Research on the One-to-many Automated Negotiation Model Adopting Elimination System Based on Multi-agent
Ranran Li · 2008
This paper proposed an one-to-many negotiation model adopting elimination system,contrast to the concurrent bi-lateral negotiation,it could reduce the complexity of the coordinator Agent and the communication cost between agents,avoid the unfair phenomenon for the seller agents.The model put forward the concept of cooperation possibility, which was used to evaluate the sellers and eliminate the sellers having smaller cooperation possibility,so that reducing the negotiation cost.During the negotiation,this model divided the seller agents into different types according to the track diagram,gave respective strategies to propose counter offer,and proposed unify offer in the next round to the seller agents on this foundation.This method not only ensured the quality of the negotiation but also reduced the negotiation cost,could complete the one-to-many negotiation more availably.