Progressive Multi-Agent Negotiation

Second International Conference on Multiagent Systems

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Second International Conference on Multiagent Systems

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This research is concerned with coordination among autonomous agents in cooperative domains where, despite 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, the model formalizes progressive negotiation where negotiation among a group of agents can be divided into a number of sub-negotiations which proceed incrementally. We investigate how the sizes of these sub-negotiations affect the negotiation solution.