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Towards Automated Procurement via Agent-Aware Negotiation Support

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A. Giovannucci,

J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilar,

J. CerquidesAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '04: Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1

Pages 244 - 251

Published: 19 July 2004 Publication History

Abstract

Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of providing agentsý offers. Typically, a buying agentýs decision involves a large variety of constraints that may involve attributes of a very same item as well as attributes of multiple items. In this paper we describe iBundler, an agent-aware negotiation service to solve the winner determination problem considering buyersý and providersý constraints and preferences.

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Parsons SRodriguez-Aguilar JKlein M(2011)Auctions and biddingACM Computing Surveys10.1145/1883612.188361743:2(1-59)Online publication date: 4-Feb-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1883612.1883617
Suyama TYokoo M(2005)Strategy/False-name Proof Protocols for Combinatorial Multi-Attribute Procurement AuctionAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems10.1007/s10458-005-0983-211:1(7-21)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10458-005-0983-2
Giovannucci ARodríguez-Aguilar J(2005)On the cost of agent-awareness for negotiation servicesProceedings of the 7th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems III10.1007/11916291_5(64-78)Online publication date: 26-Jul-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11916291_5
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Index Terms

Towards Automated Procurement via Agent-Aware Negotiation Support
1. Applied computing
  1. Electronic commerce
    1. E-commerce infrastructure
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Cooperation and coordination
      2. Multi-agent systems

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Parsons SRodriguez-Aguilar JKlein M(2011)Auctions and biddingACM Computing Surveys10.1145/1883612.188361743:2(1-59)Online publication date: 4-Feb-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1883612.1883617
Suyama TYokoo M(2005)Strategy/False-name Proof Protocols for Combinatorial Multi-Attribute Procurement AuctionAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems10.1007/s10458-005-0983-211:1(7-21)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10458-005-0983-2
Giovannucci ARodríguez-Aguilar J(2005)On the cost of agent-awareness for negotiation servicesProceedings of the 7th international conference on Agent-Oriented Information Systems III10.1007/11916291_5(64-78)Online publication date: 26-Jul-2005
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11916291_5
Reyes-Moro ARodríguez-Aguilar J(2004)iAuctionMakerProceedings of the 6th AAMAS international conference on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: theories for and Engineering of Distributed Mechanisms and Systems10.1007/11575726_15(202-214)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11575726_15

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