Title :
Automated Negotiation for Package Delivery
Author :
de Jonge, Dave ; Sierra, Carles
Author_Institution :
Artificial Intell. Res. Inst., Campus de la Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
Package delivery companies compete with each other and have costumers spread over wide areas. We propose a negotiation algorithm that allows companies and individual postmen to negotiate over who delivers what package. This way, package delivery can be made more efficient, yielding a higher profit and/or lower costs for all parties. Our system does not force competing companies to cooperate, but proposes solutions that allow all parties to increase their individual profit.
Keywords :
algorithm theory; goods distribution; travelling salesman problems; tree searching; automated negotiation algorithm; package delivery company; profit; Automated Negotiation; Branch and Bound; Non-linear Utility; Package Delivery; Search;
Conference_Titel :
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW), 2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5153-9
DOI :
10.1109/SASOW.2012.23