Authors:
Guorui Jiang
;
Yangwei Xu
and
Ying Liu
Affiliation:
Beijing University of Technology, China
Keyword(s):
Argumentation, Auto-negotiation system, Multi-agent, Negotiation model.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agent Models and Architectures
;
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Autonomous Systems
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Negotiation and Interaction Protocols
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In the e-commerce transactions, there are lots of commodities with the same name, but anyone of these commodities have certain attributes which differ itself from others. During the traditional process of multi-agent negotiation, only one commodity can be selected as the negotiation object from these commodities with same name, if buyer agent want to find an appropriate commodity, the flexibility and efficiency of multi-agent negotiation would be low. This paper studies the multi-agent negotiation model by argumentation for a group of commodities. It firstly defines all kinds of negotiation elements, then establishes a negotiation model based-on argumentation and describes the negotiation agreements and strategies, and finally an example would be presented for testifying the effects of this model.