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Agent-mediated e-commerce is rapidly emerging as a new paradigm to develop business intelligent systems. Such systems are built upon the foundations of agent technology with a strong emphasis on the automated negotiation capabilities. In this paper, we address negotiation problems where agreements must resolve several different attributes. We propose a one-to-many multi-issue negotiation model based on the Pareto optimal theory. The proposed model is capable of processing agents’ preferences and arriving to an optimal solution from a set of alternatives by ranking them according to the score that they achieved. We present our prototype system architecture, together with a discussion of the underlying negotiation framework. We then illustrate on our implementation efforts using the JADE and Eclipse platform. Our concluding remarks and possible further work are presented.
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Balachandran, B.M., Gobbin, R., Sharma, D. (2011). Development of a Multi-issue Negotiation System for E-Commerce. In: Watada, J., Phillips-Wren, G., Jain, L.C., Howlett, R.J. (eds) Intelligent Decision Technologies. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22194-1_42
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