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Clustering Techniques in Automated Purchase Negotiations

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V (CEEMAS 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 4696))

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In this paper we propose a modification to a fuzzy constraint based framework for automated purchase negotiations in competitive trading environments. The goal of this work is to improve the performance of the negotiation processes in terms of computation time and joint utility. This modification is based on the use of clustering techniques in the seller’s decision mechanisms.

This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science grant TSI2005-07384-C03-03.

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  1. Department of Automatica, University of Alcala, Edificio Politecnico, Ctra. NII, km. 33.600, 28871 Alcala de Henares (Madrid), Spain

    Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Juan R. Velasco & Ivan Marsa-Maestre

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Lopez-Carmona, M.A., Velasco, J.R., Marsa-Maestre, I. (2007). Clustering Techniques in Automated Purchase Negotiations. In: Burkhard, HD., Lindemann, G., Verbrugge, R., Varga, L.Z. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications V. CEEMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75254-7_34

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