Whereas the oldest negotiation framework in distributed artiicial intelligence, the Contract Net metaphor, embodies a truly distributed negotiation procedure, some of the younger approaches to negotiation are distributed to a lesser degree, relying on a mediator to resolve connicts between agents. In this paper, we present delegated negotiation as a more distributed alternative for mediated neg...

In this chapter we introduce the System for Analysis of Multi-Issue Negotiation (SAMIN). SAMIN offers a negotiation environment that supports and facilitates the setup of various negotiation setups. The environment has been designed to analyse negotiation processes between human negotiators, between human and software agents, and between software agents. It offers a range of different agents, d...

Introduction At the start of a complex negotiation process, the relevant issues and actors to join the negotiation process have to be identified. Although the need to identify issues and actors for negotiations has been acknowledged (Lim 1999, Thiessen Loucks and Stedinger 1998, Rangaswamy and Shell 1997) and discussed (Keeney 1992) in the literature on decision making and negotiation analysis,...

This paper proposes an approach to attack the multi-linked negotiation in a complex organizational context. The motivational qualities (MQ) framework developed earlier, provides the agent with the capability to reason about different objective goals hence the agent can evaluate a negotiation issue via its organizational objectives. The partial order schedule is exploited as a reasoning tool for...

We view a group problem as a resource allocation problem among involved parties, ana’ negotiation as the members’ act to protect, or better yet, to gain additional resources for themselves. Group members gather together to achieve a common goal. Yet, they are also stakeholders seeking to defend their own interest as well. As such, negotiation can be seen as an effort of all parties seeking to e...

The paper presents the generic conceptual framework for modeling rational negotiation processes. The central piece of the presented work is the upper-level negotiation ontology. This ontology is designed to be capable to model the arbitrary types of negotiation dialogues by providing the upper-level namespace for that. The models of the specific negotiation types refine this namespace by provid...

Negotiation is an important aspect of the construction process. Different negotiation theories and models are available and have been deployed in a variety of situations. In some cases, these have been incorporated into multiagent systems that address a number of engineering problems. This paper is concerned with the approach adopted in the development of a multiagent system for construction cl...

Argumentation-based negotiation (ABN) is a prevailing approach for automated negotiation. It is based on the exchange of arguments that allow an agent to acquire additional information about the other agents and the particular circumstances of the negotiation, and can be used for attacking or justifying offers. This is an important element in resolving conflicts that very often are due to the a...

Automated negotiation is a powerful (and sometimes essential) means for allocating resources among self-interested autonomous software agents. A key problem in building negotiating agents is the design of the negotiation strategy, which is used by an agent to decide its negotiation behaviour. In complex domains, there is no single, obvious optimal strategy. This has le4d to much work on designi...

In this paper we present the NegoManage system, which aims at supporting the bilateral negotiation during all negotiation phases. The support includes the problem structure identification, the analysis of individual preferences of both parties, the messaging and offers exchange and the post-negotiation improvements of the agreement. The preference analysis is supported with a novel mechanism in...