Multiagent Automated Negotiation Theories and their Evaluations

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H01703
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Ito Takayuki 名古屋工業大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (50333555)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 藤田 桂英 東京農工大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (00625676)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 自動交渉 / エージェント / 交渉 / ゲーム理論 / 効用関数 / マルチエージェントシステム / メタ戦略 / プロトコル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this research is to deepen the automated negotiation theory and evaluation based on simulation on automated negotiations in the dispersed negotiation space. In this research, we clarified efficient utility models, negotiation strategies, and negotiation protocols. In particular, we achieved the following break-through results: (1) We proposed a new graph-based utility model which successfully represent very complex utility spaces. (2) We proved that meta negotiation strategy can work well in the particular group of negotiation agents. (3) We implemented a new negotiation simulation environment which can use machine learning technologies. (4) We continuously held the ANAC international automated negotiation competitions where we examined the advantage of the proposed models, strategies, and protocols.

Free Research Field

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