Performance Analysis for a Multi-Stage Negotiation

Author

Li, Jiaxing ; Chen, Jen-Hsiang ; Chao, Kuo-Ming ; Godwin, Nick ; Li, Yinsheng ; Huang, Ying

Author_Institution

Software Sch., Fudan Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

26-29 June 2006

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

40

Abstract

It is not uncommon for negotiating agents to involve complex utility functions in the negotiation process. To search for an optimised solution in a large and complex space can be very time consuming. The choice of appropriate parameter settings for searching methods can have significant impact on the negotiation result. In this paper, we report a series of the experiments that have been carried out to analyze the performance of a multi-stage bi-lateral negotiation mechanism. Apart from the efficiency of processing time, two key criteria, joint total utility and the difference between the agents´ degrees of satisfaction, were selected to measure the effectiveness of the proposed negotiation mechanism

Keywords

search problems; utility theory; complex utility function; joint total utility; multistage bilateral negotiation; searching methods; Chaotic communication; Counting circuits; Information technology; Mechanical factors; Multidimensional systems; Performance analysis; Protocols; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Commerce Technology, 2006. The 8th IEEE International Conference on and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2511-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEC-EEE.2006.68

Filename

1640295