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Author Kraus, Sarit.

Title Strategic negotiation in multiagent environments / Sarit Kraus
Published Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Intelligent robots and autonomous agents
Intelligent robots and autonomous agents.
Contents 1. Introduction. 1.1. Rational Self-Interested Agents. 1.2. Motivating Examples. 1.3. Characteristics That Differentiate Negotiation Protocols. 1.4. An Overview of This Book. 1.5. Game Theory Concepts -- 2. The Strategic-Negotiation Model. 2.1. Rubinstein's Protocol of Alternating Offers. 2.2. Assumptions. 2.3. The Agents' Utility Functions. 2.4. Negotiation Strategies. 2.5. Subgame Perfect Equilibria. 2.6. Discussion of the Protocol. 2.7. Negotiation Models in Distributed Artificial Intelligence -- 3. Negotiations about Data Allocation. 3.1. Description of the Data Allocation Environment. 3.2. Negotiation Analysis - Complete Information. 3.3. Complexity and Heuristics Methods for the Allocation Problem. 3.4. Dataset Allocation - The Incomplete Information Case. 3.5. Distributed File Allocation. 3.6. Approaches to Protocols for the Incomplete Information Case -- 4. Negotiations about Resource Allocation. 4.1. Problem Description. 4.2. Attributes of the Utility Functions. 4.3. Complete Information. 4.4. Incomplete Information about the Opponent. 4.5. Multiple-Encounter Negotiation Protocol. 4.6. Other Approaches to the Resource Allocation Problem -- 5. Negotiations about Resource Allocation with Multiple Attributes. 5.1. Description of the Environment. 5.2. Subgame Perfect Equilibrium Strategies. 5.3. Simulation Results -- 6. Negotiations about Task Distribution. 6.1. Bilateral Negotiations. 6.2. Multiple Agents. 6.3. Task Distribution in DAI -- 7. Negotiations about How to Reduce Pollution. 7.1. Problem Description. 7.2. Attributes of the Utility Functions. 7.3. Complete Information. 7.4. Incomplete Information. 7.5. Market Mechanisms and AI Methods for Pollution Control -- 8. Negotiation during a Hostage Crisis. 8.1. The Simulation Scenario. 8.2. Negotiations between Only the Sikhs and India. 8.3. Pakistan Participates in the Negotiations. 8.4. Negotiation Analysis in Political Science -- 9. Economic and Game-Theoretic Models for Cooperation. 9.1. Auctions. 9.2. Market-Oriented Programming. 9.3. Coalition Formation. 9.4. Contracting -- 10. Conclusions and Future Directions
Notes "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-257) and index
Subject Intelligent agents (Computer software)
LC no. 00065370
ISBN 0262112647 :