Abstract
Motivated by the challenges of bilateral negotiations between people and automated agents we organized the first automated negotiating agents competition (ANAC 2010). The purpose of the competition is to facilitate the research in the area bilateral multi-issue closed negotiation. The competition was based on the Genius environment, which is a General Environment for Negotiation with Intelligent multi-purpose Usage Simulation. The first competition was held in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-10) and was comprised of seven teams. This paper presents an overview of the competition, as well as general and contrasting approaches towards negotiation strategies that were adopted by the participants of the competition. Based on analysis in post-tournament experiments, the paper also attempts to provide some insights with regard to effective approaches towards the design of negotiation strategies.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | New Trends in Agent-Based Complex Automated Negotiations |
| Editors | Takayuki Ito, Minjie Zhang, Valentin Robu, Shaheen Fatima, Tokuro Matsuo |
| Pages | 113-135 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012 |
Publication series
| Name | Studies in Computational Intelligence |
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| Volume | 383 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1860-949X |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was conducted as part of the ?Increasing Energy and Chemical Recovery Efficiency in the Kraft Process-III? research program, jointly supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and a consortium of the following companies: Andritz, AV Nacka-wic, Babcock & Wilcox, Boise, Carter Holt Harvey, Celulose Nipo-Brasileira, Clyde-Bergemann, DMI Peace River Pulp, Eldorado, ERCO Worldwide, Fibria, FPInnovations, International Paper, Irving Pulp & Paper, Kiln Flame Systems, Klabin, MeadWestvaco, StoraEnso, Suzano, Tembec, Tolko Industries, and Valmet.
Funding Information:
This work was conducted as part of the “Increasing Energy and Chemical Recovery Efficiency in the Kraft Process - III” research program, jointly supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and a consortium of the following companies: Andritz, AV Nacka-wic, Babcock & Wilcox, Boise, Carter Holt Harvey, Celulose Nipo-Brasileira, Clyde-Bergemann, DMI Peace River Pulp, Eldorado, ERCO Worldwide, Fibria, FPInnovations, International Paper, Irving Pulp & Paper, Kiln Flame Systems, Klabin, MeadWestvaco, StoraEnso, Suzano, Tembec, Tolko Industries, and Valmet.