TY - JOUR
T1 - Decoupling negotiating agents to explore the space of negotiation strategies
AU - Baarslag, Tim
AU - Hindriks, Koen
AU - Hendrikx, Mark
AU - Dirkzwager, Alexander
AU - Jonker, Catholijn
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Every year, automated negotiation agents are improving on various domains. However, given a set of negotiation agents, current methods allow to determine which strategy is best in terms of utility, but not so much the reason of success. In order to study the performance of the individual elements of a negotiation strategy, we introduce an architecture that distinguishes three components which together constitute a negotiation strategy: the bidding strategy, the opponent model, and the acceptance condition. Our contribution to the field of bilateral negotiation is threefold: first, we show that existing state of the art agents are compatible with this architecture; second, as an application of our architecture, we systematically explore the space of possible strategies by recombining different strategy components; finally, we briefly review how the BOA architecture has been recently applied to evaluate the performance of strategy components and create novel negotiation strategies that outperform the state of the art.
AB - Every year, automated negotiation agents are improving on various domains. However, given a set of negotiation agents, current methods allow to determine which strategy is best in terms of utility, but not so much the reason of success. In order to study the performance of the individual elements of a negotiation strategy, we introduce an architecture that distinguishes three components which together constitute a negotiation strategy: the bidding strategy, the opponent model, and the acceptance condition. Our contribution to the field of bilateral negotiation is threefold: first, we show that existing state of the art agents are compatible with this architecture; second, as an application of our architecture, we systematically explore the space of possible strategies by recombining different strategy components; finally, we briefly review how the BOA architecture has been recently applied to evaluate the performance of strategy components and create novel negotiation strategies that outperform the state of the art.
KW - Acceptance condition
KW - Automated bilateral negotiation
KW - Bidding strategy
KW - BOA architecture
KW - Component-based
KW - Opponent model
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U2 - 10.1007/978-4-431-54758-7_4
DO - 10.1007/978-4-431-54758-7_4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84927153628
SN - 1860-949X
VL - 535
SP - 61
EP - 83
JO - Studies in Computational Intelligence
JF - Studies in Computational Intelligence
ER -