New Trends in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations

Ito, Takayuki (Editor)/ Zhang, Minjie (Editor)/ Robu, Valentin (Editor)/ Fatima, Shaheen (Editor)/ Matsuo, Tokuro (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3642246958 / ISBN 13: 9783642246951

Published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc, 2011

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2012 edition. 188 pages. 9.25x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Trends in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642246958
• ISBN 13: 9783642246951
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.44 kilograms

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Synopsis

Complex Automated Negotiations represent an important, emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Automated negotiations can be complex, since there are a lot of factors that characterize such negotiations. These factors include the number of issues, dependencies between these issues,  representation of utilities, the negotiation protocol, the number of parties in the negotiation (bilateral or multi-party), time constraints, etc. Software agents can support automation or simulation of such complex negotiations on the behalf of their owners, and can provide them with efficient bargaining strategies. To realize such a complex automated negotiation, we have to incorporate advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies includes search, CSP, graphical utility models, Bayes nets, auctions, utility graphs, predicting and learning methods. Applications could include e-commerce tools, decision-making support tools, negotiation support tools, collaboration tools, etc. This book aims to provide a description of the new trends in Agent-based, Complex Automated Negotiation, based on the papers from leading researchers. Moreover, it gives an overview of the latest scientific efforts in this field, such as the platform and strategies of automated negotiating techniques.