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The negotiation is one of the most important phase of the process of buying and selling energy in electricity markets. Buyers and sellers know about their own trading behavior or the quality of their products. However, they can also gather data directly or indirectly from them through the exchange information before or during negotiation, even negotiators should also gather information about past behavior of the other parties, such as their trustworthiness and reputation. Hence, in this scope, reputation models play a more important role in decision-making process in the undertaken bilateral negotiation. Since the decision takes into account, not only the potential economic gain for supported player, but also the reliability of the contracts. Therefore, the reputation component represents the level of confidence that the supported player can have on the opponent’s service, i.e. in this case, the level of assurance that the opponent will fulfil the conditions established in the contract. This paper proposes a reputation computational model, included in DECON, a decision support system for bilateral contract negotiation, in order to enhance the decision-making process regarding the choice of the most suitable negotiation parties.
This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 641794 (project DREAM-GO) and grant agreement No 703689 (project ADAPT); and from FEDER Funds through COMPETE program and from National Funds through FCT under the project UID/EEA/00760/2013.
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Rodriguez-Fernandez, J., Pinto, T., Silva, F., Praça, I., Vale, Z., Corchado, J.M. (2018). Reputation Computational Model to Support Electricity Market Players Energy Contracts Negotiation. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complexity: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94779-2_12
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