Agent negotiation under uncertainty and risk

Von Wun Soo*

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Abstract

Traditional game theoretic reasoning for agent negotiation usually base on the assumption of rationality of agents who are expected utility maximizers. The utility functions that express preferences of agents over goods, states or money are essential in decision making of rational agents. However, the utility functions are very sensitive to agent's wealth levels. To obtain the utility functions and wealth levels of other agents during the negotiation are extremely difficult. In this paper, we propose a way of getting around the problems by assuming the game theoretic decision making of rational agents be based on a monetary payoff game matrix instead of a utility payoff matrix. We regard utility functions and wealth levels of agents as private information while treating the monetary payoff game matrix as public information that is available to each agent. Rational agents of different risk preference types (e.g. risk averse, risk neutral and risk seeking) must negotiate to find a stable state using only the public information. We therefore extend the work of Wu and Soo who developed the negotiation mechanisms with a trusted third party as a mediator for agents to reach a stable equilibrium state under uncertain games. We discuss how the negotiation results based on the monetary payoff game matrix may be affected by different risk preferences of negotiating rational agents.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDesign and Applications of Intelligent Agents - 3rd Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2000, Proceedings
EditorsC. Zhang, V.-W. Soo
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages31-45
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)3540679111, 9783540679110
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2000 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 28 08 200029 08 2000

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Volume1881
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conference3rd Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, PRIMA 2000
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period28/08/0029/08/00

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2000 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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