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An Ontology Based Approach to Automated Negotiation

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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV. Designing Mechanisms and Systems (AMEC 2002)

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This paper presents a novel approach to automated negotiation that is particularly suitable to open environments, such as the Internet. In this approach agents can negotiate in any type of marketplace regardless of the negotiation mechanism in use. In order to support a wide variety of negotiation mechanisms, protocols are no longer hardcoded in the agents participating to negotiations, but are now expressed in terms of a shared ontology, thus making this approach particularly suitable for applications such as electronic commerce. The paper describes the negotiation ontology and provides a walkthrough example describing how the approach based on the negotiation ontology could be applied to the trading agent competition scenario.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZF, Liverpool, UK

    Valentina Tamma, Michael Wooldridge & Ian Blacoe

  2. Hewlett-Packard Research Labs, Filton Road, BS34 8QZ, Bristol, UK

    Ian Dickinson

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  1. University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Julian Padget

  2. IBM - Haifa Research Labs, Haifa University, Israel

    Onn Shehory

  3. Maxwell Dworkin Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA

    David Parkes

  4. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Norman Sadeh

  5. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Harthorne, NY, USA

    William E. Walsh

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Tamma, V., Wooldridge, M., Blacoe, I., Dickinson, I. (2002). An Ontology Based Approach to Automated Negotiation. In: Padget, J., Shehory, O., Parkes, D., Sadeh, N., Walsh, W.E. (eds) Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV. Designing Mechanisms and Systems. AMEC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36378-5_14

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