Automated negotiation plays an important role in the process of reaching a mutually acceptable agreement between service consumer and service provider about the terms of the service is being provided. In the last years, a vast amount of work about negotiation protocols and decision-making models have been proposed to achieve this automated negotiation. However, the goodness of each proposal dep...

Negotiation, is in general very context sensitive. Since our research laboratory has successfully developed decision support systems in Australian Family Law, we have used our domain expertise to construct a variety of Family Law negotiation support systems. Family Winner uses a variety of artificial intelligence and game theoretic techniques to advise upon structuring the mediation process and...

Most of today’s e-marketplaces support a single negotiation protocol. The protocol is usually built into the e-marketplace infrastructure, therefore if a new protocol is introduced then a time consuming and complex process of implementing it takes place. Moreover, participants in the e-marketplace need to adapt their interfaces to the new protocol, especially if they make use of automated means...

Automated negotiation is an important applying field of agent theory and technology. For the current agent theoretical models have some troubles in explaining the agent's negotiation behaviors, this paper defines utility as costs and incomes coming from the transformation of the possible negotiation states. This lead to a semantic model fitting the agent's automated negotiation. Then, on the ba...

Researchers have recently begun to develop and investigate policy languages to describe trust and security requirements on the Semantic Web [14, 24]. Such policies will be one component of a run-time system that can negotiate to establish trust on the Semantic Web. In this paper, we show how to express different kinds of access control policies and control their use at run time using PeerTrust,...

The rise of the Internet and electronic business presents new opportunities to develop flexible and effective exchange mechanisms. The information and communication technologies allow the individuals and the organizations engage in potentially fruitful interactions and joint solution search regardless of their location and time. Rise of interest in electronic negotiation systems (ENS) is a logi...

agent-based negotiation is one of the interesting approaches in the field of automated negotiation in the e-commerce world. establishment an automated negotiation needs to develop a mechanism for it and it is obvious that users would accept a mechanism that is reliable alternative for negotiating individual. therefore, the need to developing efficient and reliable agent-based negotiation mechan...

Many of the existing e-negotiation support systems are build around one negotiation protocol. This effectively restricts their use to those problems and interactions that had been assumed a priori by the systems’ designers. Field and experimental studies show that the way the negotiation process is structured depends on the negotiators’ characteristics, the problem and the context in which an a...

There have been many decision support systems that provide advice for resolving disputes. However, little effort has been devoted to dispute avoidance. Through the use of the intelligent eGanges shell, this work expands on interest-based negotiation support systems, to develop dispute avoidance ontologies and software for negotiation planning systems. It is suggested that intelligent negotiatio...

Negotiation is a complex process aimed at reaching agreement about the exchange of goods or services. Although a daily activity, few people are effective negotiators [10]. Existing Negotiation Support Systems (NSS) can improve the human performance in negotiations and increase the number of win-win outcomes if the negotiation space is well-understood [5]. However, to develop the negotiation spa...