Intelligent agents for e-marketplace: Negotiation with issue trade-offs by fuzzy inference systems
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چکیده
Automated negotiation by autonomous agents has become increasingly important since the advent of e-marketplace. In this study, automated negotiation is viewed as a search process in which negotiators jointly search for a mutually acceptable contract in a multidimensional space formed by negotiable issues. This search is formulated as a multiple-objective decision making problem and is solved through an iterative process of generating offers by fuzzy inference systems. These fuzzy inference systems serve as a search heuristic and are formulated based on the strategy of issue trade-offs. Five experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed automated negotiation algorithm. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Decision Support Systems
دوره 42 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006