Determining Successful Negotiation Strategies: An Evolutionary Approach
OA Location
Author(s)
Matos, N
Sierra, C
Jennings, NR
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
To be successful in open, multi-agent environments, autonomous agents must be capable of adapting their negotiation strategies and tactics to their prevailing circumstances. To this end, we present an empirical study showing the relative success of different strategies against different types of opponent in different environments. In particular we adopt an evolutionary approach in which strategies and tactics correspond to the genetic material in a genetic algorithm. We conduct a series of experiments to determine the most successful strategies and to see how and when these strategies evolve depending on the context and negotiation stance of the agent's opponent.
Date Issued
1998-07-03
Date Acceptance
1998-07-03
Citation
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98), 1998, pp.182-189
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
182
End Page
189
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98)
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/252163/
Source
3rd International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
1998-07-03
Finish Date
1998-07-07
Coverage Spatial
Paris, France