DR-NEGOTIATE – A system for automated agent negotiation with defeasible logic-based strategies

• DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2007.03.004
• Publication Date: 2007-04-02T07:12:44Z
• Authors: Thomas Skylogiannis; Grigoris Antoniou; Nick Bassiliades; Guido Governatori; Antonis Bikakis
• Keywords: 280213 Other Artificial Intelligence; Defeasible logic; e-Commerce; 280109 Decision Support and Group Support Systems; 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; Agent architecture; 02 engineering and technology; 350213 Electronic Commerce; Automated negotiation

This paper reports on a system for automated agent negotiation, based on a formal and executable approach to capture the behavior of parties involved in a negotiation. It uses the JADE agent framework, and its major distinctive feature is the use of declarative negotiation strategies. The negotiation strategies are expressed in a declarative rules language, defeasible logic, and are applied using the implemented system DR-DEVICE. The key ideas and the overall system architecture are described, and a particular negotiation case is presented in detail.