Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems
Papers from the 2001 Fall Symposium
Costas Tsatsoulis, Program Cochairs
Technical Report FS-01-03. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
New Results on Cooperative, Multi-Step Negotiation over a Multi-Dimensional Utility Function / 1
XiaoQin Zhang, Victor Lesser, and Rodion Podorozhny
You Sense, I’ll Act: Coordinated Preemption in Multi-Agent CIRCA / 11
Kurt D. Krebsbach and David J. Musliner
Agent-Based Argumentative Negotiations with Case-Based Reasoning / 16
Leen-Kiat Soh and Costas Tsatsoulis
Towards Argumentation as Distributed Constraint Satisfaction / 26
Hyuckchul Jung and Milind Tambe
The Marbles Manifesto: A Definition and Comparison of Cooperative Negotiation Schemes for Distributed Resource Allocation / 36
Martin Frank, Alejandro Bugacov, Jinbo Chen, Gordon Dakin, Pedro Szekely, and Bob Neches
Multi-Agent Mission Coordination via Negotiation / 46
David J. Musliner and Kurt D. Krebsbach
Incremental Negotiation and Coalition Formation for Resource-Bound Agents: Preliminary Report / 53
Charles L. Ortiz, Jr., Eric Hsu, Marie desJardins, Timothy Rauenbusch, Barbara Grosz, Osher Yadgar, and Sarit Kraus
Soft-Real Time, Cooperative Negotiation for Distributed Resource Allocation / 63
Roger Mailler, Regis Vincent, Victor Lesser, Jiaying Shen, and Tim Middlekoop
Experiments in Indirect Negotiation / 70
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Robert Savit, Sven A. Brueckner, and John Sauter
A Praxeology for Rational Negotiation / 79
Wynn C. Stirling and Todd K. Moon
Dynamic Distributed Resource Allocation: A Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Approach / 89
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe, Wei-Min Shen, and Shriniwas Kulkarni
A Proposed Approach to Sophisticated Negotiation / 96
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor Lesser, and Tom Wagner
Satisficing Negotiation for Resource Allocation with Disputed Resources / 106
Todd K. Moon and Wynn C. Stirling
Fuzzy Preferences for Multi-Criteria Negotiation / 116
Bartel Van de Walle and Peyman Faratin
A Negotiation Formal Model for Cooperating Agents / 119
Ahmed Hadj Kacem and Mohamed Jmaiel
Co-Evolution of Bargaining Strategies in a Decentralized Multi-Agent System / 126
Torsten Eymann
Negotiating Complex Contracts / 135
Mark Klein, Peyman Faratin, Hiroki Sayama, and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Modeling Mental States in Agent Negotiation / 142
Walid S. Saba
Negotiating Efficient Envy-Free Divisions / 149
Sandip Sen and Rajatish Mukherjee
Emergence of Stable Coalitions via Negotiation of Task Exchanges / 155
Partha Sarathi Dutta and Sandip Sen