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Negotiating complex contracts

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Mark Klein,

Peyman Faratin,

Hiroki Sayama,

Yaneer Bar-YamAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '02: Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2

Pages 753 - 757

https://doi.org/10.1145/544862.544919

Published: 15 July 2002 Publication History

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Work to date on computational models of negotiation has focused almost exclusively on defining contracts consisting of one or a few independent issues. Many real-world contracts, by contrast, consist of multiple inter-dependent issues. This paper describes a simulated annealing based approach appropriate for negotiating such complex contracts, evaluates its efficacy, and suggests potentially promising avenues for future work.

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Liu K(2013)A Model of Protocol for Automated Negotiation SystemProceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 310.1007/978-3-642-35470-0_49(407-412)Online publication date: 26-Jan-2013
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Negotiating complex contracts
1. Computing methodologies
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    1. Distributed artificial intelligence

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DOI:10.1145/544862

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CNR and Università di Siena, Italy
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W. Lewis Johnson
University of Southern California, USA

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SáNchez-Anguix VValero SJuliáN VBotti VGarcíA-Fornes A(2013)Evolutionary-aided negotiation model for bilateral bargaining in Ambient Intelligence domains with complex utility functionsInformation Sciences: an International Journal10.1016/j.ins.2010.11.018222(25-46)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2013
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35470-0_49
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