Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
In systems composed of multiple autonomous agents, negotiation is a key form of interaction that enables groups of agents to arrive at a mutual agreement regarding some belief, goal or plan, for example. Particularly because the agents are autonomous and cannot be assumed to be benevolent, agents must influence others to convince them to act in certain ways, and negotiation is thus critical for managing such inter-agent dependencies. The process of negotiation may be of many different forms, such as auctions, protocols in the style of the contract net, and argumentation, but it is unclear just how sophisticated the agents or the protocols for interaction must be for successful negotiation in different contexts. All these issues were raised in the panel session on negotiation.
Date Issued
1999
Citation
Knowledge Engineering Review, 1999, 14, pp.285-289
Start Page
285
End Page
289
Journal / Book Title
Knowledge Engineering Review
Volume
14
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/253858/
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
0801 Artificial Intelligence And Image Processing
1702 Cognitive Science
Article Number
3