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We present an architecture that makes use of symbolic decision-making to support agents participating in concurrent bilateral negotiations. The architecture is a revised version of previous work with the KGP model [12, 23], which we specialise with knowledge about the agent’s self, the negotiation opponents and the environment. Our work combines the specification of domain-independent decision-making with a new protocol for concurrent negotiation that revisits the well-known alternating offers protocol [22]. We show how the decision-making can be specialised to represent the agent’s strategies, utilities and preferences using a Prolog-like meta-program. The work prepares the ground for supporting decision-making in concurrent bilateral negotiations that is more lightweight than previous work and contributes towards a fully developed model of the architecture.
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Alrayes, B., Stathis, K. (2014). An Agent Architecture for Concurrent Bilateral Negotiations. In: Dargam, F., et al. Decision Support Systems III - Impact of Decision Support Systems for Global Environments. EWG-DSS EWG-DSS 2013 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11364-7_8
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