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Formal Theories of Negotiation

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Intelligent Agents VIII (ATAL 2001)

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In any Multi-Agent System (MAS) the coordination between the agents is of crucial importance. The coordination can be programmed into the agents and the protocols that they use to communicate. However, to make full advantage of the fact that the agents are autonomous and pro-active we would like the interactions not to be completely fixed, but flexible and depending on the situation. In order to establish this the agent communication will have to be more peer-to-peer than hierarchical. I.e. agents can request other agents to perform some task or give some information but do not often have the power to order the other agent to perform the task.

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Science, Utrecht University, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

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  1. Institute of Information and Computing Sciences Intelligent Systems Group, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14 De Uithof, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    John-Jules Ch. Meyer

  2. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Henry Salvatori Computer Center 232, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA

    Milind Tambe

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Dignum, F. (2002). Formal Theories of Negotiation. In: Meyer, JJ.C., Tambe, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents VIII. ATAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45448-9_23

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