Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hobart, Australia, December 4-8, 2006: Proceedings |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783540497882 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
| Event | Advances in Artificial Intelligence Conference - Duration: 1 Jan 2006 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Advances in Artificial Intelligence Conference |
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| Period | 1/01/06 → … |
Keywords
- electronic commerce
- intelligent agents (computer software)
- negotiation
- game theory
- computer architecture
- artificial intelligence