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Automated negotiation is a key issue to facilitate e-Business. It is an on-going research area and attracts attention from both research communities and industry. In this paper, we propose a multiple-stage co-operative automated negotiation architecture, including a sophisticated negotiation strategy and protocol, to resolve the agents' conflicts. This proposed architecture attempts to address the search for joint efficiency for negotiating agents in large and complex problem spaces using a co-evolutionary method. A game theoretic method is adapted to distribute the payoffs generated from the co-evolutionary method. The architecture supports interactions between the two methods to demonstrate that high-quality solutions can be found through their complimentary functions. Using the structure it is possible to refine and explore potential agreements through an iterated process. This article also reports some experimental results and discussions. © 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
Author(s): Chen J-H, Chao K-M, Godwin N, Soo V-W
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Information Systems Frontiers
Year: 2005
Volume: 7
Issue: 4-5
Pages: 391-404
Print publication date: 01/12/2005
ISSN (print): 1387-3326
ISSN (electronic): 1572-9419
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-005-4810-8
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-005-4810-8
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