TY - GEN
T1 - A model for informed negotiating agents
AU - Debenham, John
AU - Simoff, Simeon
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We propose that the key to building intelligent negotiating agents is to take an agent's historic observations as primitive, to model that agent's changing uncertainty in that information, and to use that model as the foundation for the agent's reasoning. We describe an agent architecture, with an attendant theory, that is based on that model. In this approach, the utility of contracts, and the trust and reliability of a trading partner are intermediate concepts that an agent may estimate from its information model. This enables us to describe intelligent agents that are not necessarily utility optimisers, that value information as a commodity, and that build relationships with other agents through the trusted exchange of information as well as contracts.
AB - We propose that the key to building intelligent negotiating agents is to take an agent's historic observations as primitive, to model that agent's changing uncertainty in that information, and to use that model as the foundation for the agent's reasoning. We describe an agent architecture, with an attendant theory, that is based on that model. In this approach, the utility of contracts, and the trust and reliability of a trading partner are intermediate concepts that an agent may estimate from its information model. This enables us to describe intelligent agents that are not necessarily utility optimisers, that value information as a commodity, and that build relationships with other agents through the trusted exchange of information as well as contracts.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/39649096272
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-72830-6_44
M3 - Conference Paper
AN - SCOPUS:39649096272
SN - 9783540728290
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 426
EP - 435
BT - Agent and Multi-Agent Systems
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems - Technologies and Applications, KES-AMSTA 2007
Y2 - 31 May 2007 through 1 June 2007
ER -