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Balancing conflict and cost in the selection of negotiation opponents
Steve Munroe,Michael Luck +1 more
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In this article, a motivation-based opponent selection mechanism is used by a buyer-agent to evaluate and select between an already identified set of seller-agents in an agent-to-agent purchase negotiation.Abstract:
Within the context of agent-to-agent purchase negotiations, a problem that has received little attention is that of identifying negotiation opponents in situations where the consequences of conflict and the ability to access resources dynamically vary. Such dynamism poses a number of problems that make it difficult to automate the identification of appropriate opponents. To that end, this paper describes a motivation-based opponent selection mechanism used by a buyer-agent to evaluate and select between an already identified set of seller-agents. Sellers are evaluated in terms of the amount of conflict they are expected to bring to a negotiation and the expected amount of cost a negotiation with them entail. The mechanism allows trade-offs to be made between conflict and cost minimization, and experimental results show the effectiveness of the approach.read more
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Predictive decision-making mechanisms based on off-line and on-line reasoning
TL;DR: Two predictive decision-making mechanisms are proposed that use the sequence of offers of both negotiating parties, up to the current negotiation stage, to predict the concession curve of the opponent.
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