2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'03)
Multi-agent Coalition via Autonomous Price Negotiation in a Real-Time Web Environment
Halifax, Canada
October 13-October 17
ISBN: 0-7695-1931-8
In e-marketplaces, customers specify job requests in real-time and agents form coalitions to service them. This paper proposes a protocol for self-interested agents to negotiate prices in forming successful coalitions. We propose and experiment with two negotiation schemes: one allows information sharing while the other does not.
Citation:
Hoong Chuin Lau, Wei Sian Lim, "Multi-agent Coalition via Autonomous Price Negotiation in a Real-Time Web Environment," iat, pp.580, 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'03), 2003