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  1. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    N.R. Jennings

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK

    P. Faratin

  3. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    A.R. Lomuscio

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    S. Parsons

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    M.J. Wooldridge

  6. Spanish Scientific Research Council, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    C. Sierra

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Jennings, N., Faratin, P., Lomuscio, A. et al. Automated Negotiation: Prospects, Methods and Challenges. Group Decision and Negotiation 10, 199–215 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008746126376

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