Multi-criteria Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems
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چکیده
Negotiation is a kind of decision making where two or more parties jointly search a space of solutions with the goal of reaching a consensus. This search usually is a single dimension process where the different agents, involved in the negotiation process, mutually adapt their price offers in order to reach their goals (to sell or to buy a good). However, this process is inflexible and often unrealistic because more than one single issue has to be negotiated in order to find out an adequate agreement. In this paper we introduce a multi-issue negotiation protocol for one-buyer-to-many-sellers interaction. The paper is also enhanced with an application example that illustrates the negotiation process and shows how it can be useful both as a product brokering and as a market brokering tool.
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