Title :
Research on the Negotiation Strategy of Multi-agent Based on Extended Contract Net
Author :
Liu, Ning ; Gao, FeiYan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian, China
Abstract :
Contract Net is an important model based on competition mechanism to solve the collaborative problems, but exits many shortages. In this paper a negotiation strategy of multi-Agent based on extended contract net is presented to reduce the communication and negotiation time and improve the efficiency. Agent mind parameters and buffer pool are introduced to support the extended contract net. So the negotiation quality will be improved and the system will be more adaptive and flexible.
Keywords :
groupware; multi-agent systems; collaborative problems; extended contract net; multiagent negotiation strategy; Broadcasting; Contracts; Costs; Decision making; IEEE news; Information science; International collaboration; Multiagent systems; Resource management; Uncertainty; MAS; agent; contract net; negotiation; trust;
Conference_Titel :
Future Computer and Communication, 2009. FCC '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3676-7
DOI :
10.1109/FCC.2009.17
