An Agent Architecture for Concurrent Bilateral Negotiations [chapter]

Bedour Alrayes, Kostas Stathis
2014 Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing  
We present an architecture that makes use of symbolic decision-making to support agents participating in concurrent bilateral negotiations. The architecture is a revised version of previous work with the KGP model [23, 12] , which we specialise with knowledge about the agent's self, the negotiation opponents and the environment. Our work combines the specification of domain-independent decision-making with a new protocol for concurrent negotiation that revisits the well-known alternating offers
more » ... protocol [22] . We show how the decision-making can be specialised to represent the agent's strategies, utilities and preferences using a Prolog-like meta-program. The work prepares the ground for supporting decision-making in concurrent bilateral negotiations that is more lightweight than previous work and contributes towards a fully developed model of the architecture.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11364-7_8 fatcat:2csihjpo4zcu5jemz6hbldbv5q