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Exploring the Strategy Space of Negotiating Agents

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This chapter gives an overview of the contributions of this thesis and revisits and answers the research questions posed in Chap. 1. We outline what we learned through our contributions, we reflect on the impact and limitations of our work, and we describe where we believe research effort should be directed in the following years.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    All educational material for the BOA architecture can be freely downloaded from http://ii.tudelft.nl/genius.

  2. 2.

    Finding new learning techniques for the non-linear case is especially relevant for ANAC 2014; see Sect. 11.3.5.

  3. 3.

    With the exception of Chaps. 5 and 9, which formulate optimal bidding and accepting rules for both discrete and continuous cases.

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Baarslag, T. (2016). Conclusion. In: Exploring the Strategy Space of Negotiating Agents. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28243-5_11

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