Automated Negotiation for Decentralised Scheduling

Design of automated negotiation mechanisms for decentralized heterogeneous machine scheduling

The increasing coupling of planning and scheduling between different companies leads to novel challenges in devising and implementing effective decision support systems. In this paper, we describe a hard decentralized scheduling problem with heterogeneous machines and competing job sets that belong to different selfinterested stakeholders (agents). These agents want to minimize their costs that...

Decentralised resource allocation planning through negotiation

Dynamic trust negotiation for decentralised e-health collaborations

In the Internet-age, the geographical boundaries that have previously impinged upon interorganisational collaborations have become decreasingly important. Of more importance for such collaborations is the notion and subsequent nature of security and trust this is especially so in open collaborative environments like the Grid where resources can be both made available, subsequently accessed and ...

Automated Negotiation

Interactions are a core part of all multi-agent systems. They occur because of the inter-dependencies that inevitably exist between the agents and they manifest themselves in many different forms—including cooperation, coordination, and collaboration. However, perhaps the most fundamental and powerful mechanism for managing these inter-agent dependencies at run-time is negotiation—the process b...

Automated Negotiation

This paper first describes a few existing models for product and merchant brokering and automated negotiation in the framework of agent-based e-marketplaces. Our analysis shows that only simplest types of automated negotiation protocols are currently presented online, whereas some powerful systems have been already implemented in the product and merchant brokering field. Then we give an overvie...