An agent architecture for simultaneous bilateral negotiations
Publication Type:
Conference PaperSource:
Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations, ACAN-2010, Toronto (2010)URL:
http://www.dipgame.orgKeywords:
agent architectures; simultaneous bilateral negotiation; dipgame; diplomacy gameAbstract:
In this paper we introduce an agent architecture that is suitable for joint action plan negotiation among several agents in complex environments and with negotiation time bounds. The architecture is based on a graded BDI model to drive the decisions that the agent makes. The practical reasoning explores the space of possible deals with the help of a genetic algorithm that copes with the potentially sheer amount of joint plans. Beliefs represent the agent's view of the world. Before starting negotiating the agent summarises all what she knows into the five dimensions of the LOGIC negotiation model. This summary is used to decide what to say next and whom to say it to in order to sign deals on joint plans. This work does not yet include experimental results but it is going to be tested using the DipGame testbed (http://www.dipgame.org)
A Testbed for Multiagent Systems
Publication Type:
ReportSource:
IIIA-TR-2009-09, IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Barcelona, p.18 (2009)Keywords:
application; testbed; diplomacy gameAbstract:
There is a chronic lack of shared application domains to test the research models and agent architectures on areas like negotiation, argumentation, trust and reputation. In this paper we introduce such a friendly testbed that we used for all such purposes. The testbed is based on the Diplomacy Game due to its lack of random moves and because of the essential role that negotiation and the relationships between the players play in the game. The testbed may also profit from the existence of a community of bot developers and a large number of human players that would provide data for our experiments. We offer the infrastructure and make it freely available to the MAS community.
