A multiple-stage cooperative negotiation

J. H. Chen*, K. M. Chao, N. Godwin, V. W. Soo

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Abstract

Automated negotiation is a key issue to facilitate e-Business. It is an on-going research area and attracts attention from both research communities and industry. In this paper, we propose a multiple-stage co-operative automated negotiation architecture, including a sophisticated negotiation strategy and protocol, to resolve the agents' conflicts. This proposed architecture attempts to address the discovery of joint efficiency for the negotiating agents in large and complex problem spaces using a co-evolutionary method. A game theoretic method is adapted to distribute the payoffs generated from the co-evolutionary method. The architecture supports interactions between the two methods to demonstrate that high-quality solutions can be found through their complimentary functions. Using the structure it is possible to refine and explore potential agreements through an iterated process. This article also reports some experimental results and discussions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, EEE 2004
EditorsS.T. Yuan, J. Liu
Pages131-138
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, EEE 2004 - Taipei, Taiwan
Duration: 28 03 200431 03 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, EEE 2004

Conference

ConferenceProceedings - 2004 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service, EEE 2004
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityTaipei
Period28/03/0431/03/04

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