Title :
Negotiation Mechanism Based on Agent Type and Equal Utility Space
Author :
Ren, Wuling ; Han, Xinran
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Zhejiang Gongshang Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
In collaborative environment, the negotiation between enterprises is an indispensable step for effective cooperation. In order to support business negotiation in the network environment, this paper proposes a kind of negotiation mechanism based on agent type and equal utility space. The agent type can distinguish different proposal strategy, which makes core enterprise manage the negotiation procedure. Equal utility space indicates the proposal sets of the same utility, through which the agent can select the optimal proposal to raise united utility and increase the probability of successful negotiation. At the end of the paper, Empirical results show that the mechanism compared with other mechanism, can shorten negotiation time and improve united utility.
Keywords :
groupware; multi-agent systems; negotiation support systems; agent type; business negotiation; collaborative environment; equal utility space; negotiation mechanism; Collaborative work; Computer science; Conference management; Educational institutions; Electronic government; Engineering management; Environmental management; International collaboration; Proposals; Space technology; agent type; concession range; equal utility space; negotiation; tradeoff strategy;
Conference_Titel :
Management of e-Commerce and e-Government, 2009. ICMECG '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanchang
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3778-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICMeCG.2009.59
