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Novel Insights in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiation

  • Provides the state of the art on research into agent-based complex automated negotiation
  • Written by the leading experts in the fields of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
  • Is based chapter by chapter on outstanding papers from the international workshop ACAN 2012 held in conjunction with AAMAS in Valencia, Spain.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI, volume 535)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Intra-Team Strategies for Teams Negotiating Against Competitor, Matchers, and Conceders

      • Victor Sanchez-Anguix, Reyhan AydoÄŸan, Vicente Julian, Catholijn M. Jonker
      Pages 3-22
    3. Alternative Social Welfare Definitions for Multiparty Negotiation Protocols

      • Enrique de la Hoz, Miguel Angel Lopez-Carmona, Mark Klein, Ivan Marsa-Maestre
      Pages 23-41
    4. Multilateral Mediated Negotiation Protocols with Feedback

      • Reyhan AydoÄŸan, Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker
      Pages 43-59
    5. Decoupling Negotiating Agents to Explore the Space of Negotiation Strategies

      • Tim Baarslag, Koen Hindriks, Mark Hendrikx, Alexander Dirkzwager, Catholijn Jonker
      Pages 61-83
    6. Evaluation of the Reputation Network Using Realistic Distance Between Facebook Data

      • Takanobu Otsuka, Takuya Yoshimura, Takayuki Ito
      Pages 137-148
  3. Automated Negotiating Agents Competition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
    2. An Overview of the Results and Insights from the Third Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC2012)

      • Colin R. Williams, Valentin Robu, Enrico H. Gerding, Nicholas R. Jennings
      Pages 151-162
    3. An Adaptive Negotiation Strategy for Real-Time Bilateral Negotiations

      • Alexander Dirkzwager, Mark Hendrikx
      Pages 163-170
    4. The Simple-Meta Agent

      • Litan Ilany, Ya’akov (Kobi) Gal
      Pages 197-200
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 201-204

About this book

This book focuses on all aspects of complex automated negotiations, which are studied in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. This book consists of two parts. I: Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations and II: Automated Negotiation Agents Competition. The chapters in Part I are extended versions of papers presented at the 2012 international workshop on Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiation (ACAN), after peer reviews by three Program Committee members. Part II examines in detail ANAC 2012 (The Third Automated Negotiating Agents Competition), in which automated agents that have different negotiation strategies and are implemented by different developers are automatically negotiated in the several negotiation domains. ANAC is an international competition in which automated negotiation strategies, submitted by a number of universities and research institutes across the world, are evaluated in tournament style. The purpose of the competition is to steer the research in the area of bilateral multi-issue, closed negotiation. This book also includes the rules, results, agents and domain descriptions for ANAC 2011 as submitted by the organizers and finalists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Spain

    Ivan Marsa-Maestre, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona

  • School of Techno-Business Administration, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan

    Takayuki Ito

  • School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Minjie Zhang

  • School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Quan Bai

  • Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsuhide Fujita

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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