Nonlinear Negotiation

Description

We are defining novel algorithms that help agents negotiate "complex" contracts with multiple interdependent issues.

See this video for an introduction to the concepts underlying this work.

Selected Publications

A Secure and Fair Protocol that Addresses Weaknesses of the Nash Bargaining Solution in Nonlinear Negotiation. Group Decision and Negotiation Journal. In press.

Using Iterative Narrowing to Enable Multi-Party Negotiations with Multiple Interdependent Issues Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Honolulu, Hawaii. 2007.

Multi-issue Negotiation Protocol for Agents: Exploring Nonlinear Utility Spaces. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Hyderabad, India.2007.

Negotiating Complex Contracts Group Decision and Negotiation journal. Volume 12, Number 2, 2003.

Collaborators

Miguel Angel Lopez Carmona
Peyman Faratin
Katsuhide Fujita
Takayuki Ito
Ivan Marsa Maestre English version
Shelley Zhang