In electronic commerce markets where selfish agents behave individually, agents often have
to acquire multiple resources in order to accomplish a high level task with each resource
acquisition requiring negotiations with multiple resource providers. Thus, it is crucial to
efficiently coordinate these interrelated negotiations. This paper presents the design and
implementation of agents that concurrently negotiate with other entities for acquiring multiple
resources. Negotiation agents in this paper are designed to adjust (1) the number of …

In electronic commerce markets, agents often should acquire multiple resources to fulfill a
high-level task. In order to attain such resources they need to compete with each other. In
multi-agent environments, in which competition is involved, negotiation would be an
interaction between agents in order to reach an agreement on resource allocation and to be
coordinated with each other. During recent years, many strategies have been used for
negotiation; but, their performance and success are not the same in different conditions. This …