A System for Analysis of Multi-Issue Negotiation

Abstract

Abstract. This paper presents a System for Analysis of Multi-Issue Negotiation (SAMIN). The agents in this system conduct one-to-one negotiations, in which the values across multiple issues are negotiated on simultaneously. It is demonstrated how the system supports both automated negotiation (i.e., conducted by a software agent) and human negotiation (where humans specify their bids). To analyse such negotiation processes, the user can enter any formal property deemed useful into the system and use the system to automatically check this property in given negotiation traces. Furthermore, it is shown how, compared to fully closed negotiation, the efficiency of the reached agreements may be improved, either by using incomplete preference information revealed by the negotiation partner or by incorporating a heuristic, through which an agent uses the history of the opponent's bids in order to guess his preferences.

An Ambient Intelligent Agent with Awareness of Human Task Execution

“…The LEADSTO language features a simulation engine. For more details on the LEADSTO language, see [5].…”

“…The simulation runs have been performed using the dedicated LEADSTO environment [5]. Below, only one simulation run is shown for the sake of brevity.…”

“…The rules within the reasoning mechanism are specified in an executable logical format called LEADSTO [5]. The basic building blocks of this language are causal relations of the format α → → e, f, g, h β, which means:…”