Negotiating Concurrently with Unknown Opponents in Complex, Real-Time Domains
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Author(s)
Williams, CR
Robu, V
Gerding, EH
Jennings, NR
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We propose a novel strategy to enable autonomous agents to negotiate concurrently with multiple, unknown opponents in real-time, over complex multi-issue domains. We formalise our strategy as an optimisation problem, in which decisions are based on probabilistic information about the opponents’ strategies acquired during negotiation. In doing so, we develop the first principled approach that enables the coordination of multiple, concurrent negotiation threads for practical negotiation settings. Furthermore, we validate our strategy using the agents and domains developed for the International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC), and we benchmark our strategy against the state-of-the-art. We find that our approach significantly outperforms existing approaches, and this difference improves even further as the number of available negotiation opponents and the complexity of the negotiation domain increases.
Date Issued
2012-08-27
Date Acceptance
2012-08-27
Citation
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2012, 242, pp.834-839
ISSN
1535-6698
Publisher
IOS Press
Start Page
834
End Page
839
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume
242
Copyright Statement
© 2012 The Author(s).
This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms
of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License
This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms
of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License
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Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/339064/
Source
20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2012-08-27
Finish Date
2012-08-31
Coverage Spatial
Montpellier, France