Student/system negotiation provides students with the opportunity to assume more responsibility for their own learning. This paper discusses the notion of targeted negotiation, an approach to providing negotiation for specific purposes in intelligent learning environments (ILEs). This targeted negotiation may potentially be aimed at a variety of aspects of ILEs; the object of negotiation will d...

In this paper, we present a layered agent framework in which the negotiation process is performed at different levels of abstractions. In a real time, multiple-tasking, resource-bounded environment, negotiation is not an isolated process but one that interleaved with agent’s many other activities, such as scheduling, execution, and other negotiations. To make the complexities of negotiation mor...

In a Cloud computing environment, the dynamic configuration of a personalized collection of resources often requires Cloud participants (consumers, brokers, and providers) to establish service-level agreements (SLAs) through negotiation. However, to date, state-of-the-art approaches in Cloud computing provides limited or no support for dynamic SLAs negotiation. This position paper 1) presents t...

Negotiation is an important mechanism for resolving conflicts between people. Many tasks in day-to-day life involve interactions among several people. Many of these interactions involve negotiating over a desired outcome. Negotiation in and of itself is not an easy task, and it becomes more complex under conditions of incomplete information. Therefore, training people in negotiation is benefici...

Traditional research in automated negotiation is focused on negotiation protocol and strategy, but they cannot satisfy all the requirements for realizing a practical automated negotiation system. This paper focuses on agent’s independent decision-making process; formally defines automated negotiation’s abstract concept model, which is made up of three sub-concept models, they are negotiation en...

Negotiation is one promising effort during requirements elicitation process to improve the quality of software requirements. When negotiation is claimed beneficial theoretically, it is important that the deployment of negotiation is examined and the effectiveness of negotiation is evaluated through empirical study. This paper aims at providing an empirical framework design to examine the improv...

This research is concerned with coordination among autonomous agents in cooperative domains where, de.spite conflicting interests, agents can always negotiate to increase their mutual benefits. We introduce a multi-agent negotiation model to model explicitly the negotiation process, and a monotonic negotiation protocol to ensure convergence. Particularly, tile model formalizes progressive negot...

As the basis of generating nonverbal expressions in animated agents, this paper proposes factors that account for cultural difference in nonverbal behaviors in negotiation interaction. First, we introduce theories of negotiation and cultural characteristics. Then, our analysis of human interaction in negotiation conversations in CUBE-G corpus is described. Finally, by integrating cultural and n...

Negotiations that involve contributions or distributions of shared resources are ubiquitous. However, the empirical literature has predominantly focused on how parties negotiate exchange exclusive in transaction negotiations (e.g., buyer–seller negotiations) and ignored shared-resource negotiations. We develop a novel negotiation task to investigate resolve conflicts over contribution versus di...