Negotiations have recently been introduced as a model of concurrency with multi-party negotiation atoms as primitive. This paper studies the relation between negotiations and Petri nets. In particular, we show that each negotiation can be translated into a 1-safe labelled Petri net with equivalent behaviour. In the general case, this Petri net is exponentially larger than the negotiation. For d...

Resumen. To make automated negotiation widely used in real scenarios, it is necessary to develop advanced software systems that are able to carry out such negotiation in those scenarios. However, although much work has been done in automated negotiation, most of these efforts have been focused on the development of negotiation protocols and strategies and only a few are centred on software fram...

Concurrent Multiple Negotiation (CMN) mechanism is necessary for agents to achieve agreements in multiple negotiations, and it has become a very important research topic in multi-agent systems in recent years. However, in the open and dynamic negotiation environment, negotiations may be dynamically and concurrently initialized or terminated during the process of other existing negotiations. The...