RA2: Macro/society-level issues in agent technology

2.5 Negotiation, bidding and argumentation

Beer M., d'Inverno M., Jennings N., Luck M., Preist C. and Schroeder M.(1999). Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems, Knowledge Engineering Review, 14(3), 285-289.Byde, A. (2001). "An Optimal Dynamic Programming Model for Algorithm Design in Simultaneous Auctions".

Beer M., d'Inverno M., Luck M., Jennings N. R., Preist C. and Schroeder M. (1999) "Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems" Knowledge Engineering Review 14 (3) 285-289.

Cliff D. (1997). "Minimal-Intelligence Agents for Bargaining Behaviors in Market-Based Environments", HP Technical Report.

Cliff D. and Bruten J. (1997). "Less Than Human: Simple adaptive trading agents for CDA markets", HP Technical Report HPL-97-155, accepted for CEFES'98.

Cliff D. and Bruten J. (1997). "Zero is Not Enough: On The Lower Limit of Agent Intelligence for Continuous Double Auction Markets", HP Technical Report.

Cliff D. and Bruten J.(1997). "More Than Zero Intelligence Needed for Continuous Double-Auction Trading". HP Technical Report HPL-97-157 and accepted for CEFES'98.

Faratin P., Jennings N. R., Buckle P. and Sierra C. (2000) "Automated negotiation for provisioning virtual private networks using FIPA-compliant agents" Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi- Agent Systems (PAAM-2000), Manchester, UK, 185-202.

Faratin P., Sierra C. and Jennings N. R. (1998) Negotiation Decision Functions for Autonomous Agents Int. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems 24 (3-4) 159-182. Jennings N. R., Faratin P. ,Lomuscio A. R., Parsons S., Sierra C. and Wooldridge M.(2001) "Automated negotiation: prospects, methods and challenges" Int. J. of Group Decision and Negotiation 10 (2) (to appear)

Faratin P., Sierra C., and Jennings N. R. (2000) "Using similarity criteria to make negotiation trade-offs" Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-2000), Boston, USA, 119-126.

Faratin P., Sierra C., Jennings N. R. and Buckle P. (1999) "Designing Responsive and Deliberative Automated Negotiators" Proc. AAAI Workshop on Negotiation: Settling Conflicts and Identifying Opportunities, Orlando, FL, 12-18.

Fatima S. S., Wooldridge M. and Jennings N. R., Multi-issue negotiation under time constraints. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-02), Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

Fatima S. S., Wooldridge M. and Jennings N. R., Optimal Agendas for Multi-Issue Negotiation. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-03), Melbourne, Australia, July 2003.

Fatima S. S., Wooldridge M. and Jennings N. R., Optimal Negotiation Strategies for Agents with Incomplete Information . In J.-J. Meyer and M. Tambe, editors, Intelligent Agents VIII Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in AI Volume, March 2002.

Fatima S. S., Wooldridge M. and Jennings N. R., The Influence of Information on Negotiation Equilibrium. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Elctronic Commerce (AMEC-2002), Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

Jennings N. R., Faratin P., Lomuscio A. R., Parsons S., Sierra C. and Wooldridge M., Automated negotiation: prospects, methods and challenges. In International Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation. 10(2), pages 199-215, 2001.

Jennings N. R., Parsons S., Sierra C. and Faratin P. (2000) "Automated Negotiation" Proc. 5th Int. Conf. on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi- Agent Systems (PAAM-2000), Manchester, UK, 23-30.

Jennings N.R., Faratin P., Norman T. J., O'Brien P. and Odgers B. (2000) "Autonomous Agents for Business Process Management" Int. Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence 14 (2) 145-189.

Jennings N.R., Parsons S., Noriega P. and Sierra C. (1998) "On Argumentation-Based Negotiation" Proc. Int. Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, Boston, USA.

Lomuscio A., Wooldridge M. and Jennings N. R. (2001) "A Classification Scheme for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce" in Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: A European AgentLink Perspective (eds. F. Dignum and C. Sierra), Springer Verlag, 19-33.

Lomuscio A., Wooldridge M. and Jennings N. R., A Classification Scheme for Negotiation in Elctronic Commerce. In F. Dignum and C. Sierra, editors, Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: A European AgentLink Perspective. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in AI Volume 1991, March 2001.

Matos N., Sierra C. and Jennings N. R.(1998) "Determining successful negotiation strategies: an evolutionary approach" Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98), Paris, France 182-189.

McBurney P., Parsons S. and Wooldridge M., Desiderata for agent argumentation protocols. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-02), Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

Oliveira E., Fonseca J. M. and Jennings N. R. (1999) "Learning to be Competitive in the Market" Proc. AAAI Workshop on Negotiation: Settling Conflicts and Identifying Opportunities. Orlando, FL, 30-37.

Parsons S. and Jennings N. R. (1998). "Argumentation and multi-agent decision making" Proc. AAAI Spring Sym. on Interactive and Mixed-Initiative Decision Making, Stanford, USA 89-91.

Parsons S., Sierra C. and Jennings N. R. (1998). "Agents that reason and negotiate by arguing" Journal of Logic and Computation 8 (3) 261-292.

Preist C. and van Tol M. Proceedings (1998). "Adaptive Agents in a Persistent Shout Double Auction". 1st International Conference on Information and Computation Economics.

Preist C. Proc. ed Etzioni, Muller and Bradshaw (1999). "Commodity Trading using an Agent-Based Iterated Double Auction".

Preist C., (2000). "Algorithm Design for Agents which Participate in Multiple Simultaneous Auctions".

Preist C., Byde A. and Bartolini C. (2001). "Economic Dynamics of Agents in Multiple Auctions".

Preist C., Byde A., Bartolini C. and Piccinelli G.(2001). "Towards Agent-based Service Composition through Negotiation in Multiple Auctions".

Preist C., ed Hayzelden and Bigham (1999). "Economic Agents for Automated Trading". In Software Agents for Future Communication Systems.Springer.

Sierra C., Faratin P. and Jennings N. R. (1997). "A Service-Oriented Negotiation Model between Autonomous Agents, Proc. 8th European Workshop on Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW-97), Ronneby, Sweden, 17-35.

Sierra C., Faratin P. and Jennings N. R. (1999) "Deliberative Automated Negotiators Using Fuzzy Similarities" Proc EUSFLAT-ESTYLF Joint Conference on Fuzzy Logic, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 155-158.

Sierra C., Jennings N. R., Noriega P., and Parsons S.(1997). "A Framework for Argumentation-Based Negotiation" Proc. Fourth Int. Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL-97) 167-182, Rode Island, USA.

Tamma V., Wooldridge M. and Dickinson I., An Ontology for Automated Negotiation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

Tamma V., Wooldridge M. and Dickinson I., An Ontology-based Approach to Automated Negotiation. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Elctronic Commerce (AMEC-2002), Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

Vulkan N. and Preist C. (2000). "Automated Trading in Agents-based Markets for Communication Bandwidth".