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Traditional research in automated negotiation focuses on negotiation protocol and strategy. This paper studies automated negotiation from a new point, proposes a novel concept, namely negotiating agent, argues its significance in construction of automated negotiation system; designs its architecture, which can support both goal-directed reasoning and reactive response. In order to construct an interaction mechanism among negotiating agents, a communication model is proposed, in which the negotiation language used by agents is defined. Design of the communication model and the language has been attempted in such a way so as to provide general support for a wide variety of commercial negotiation circumstances, and therefore to be particularly suitable for electronic commerce. Finally, the design and expression of the negotiation ontology are discussed.
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Cao, M., Feng, Y., Li, Y., Wang, C. (2006). Negotiating Agent: Concept, Architecture and Communication Model. In: Yeung, D.S., Liu, ZQ., Wang, XZ., Yan, H. (eds) Advances in Machine Learning and Cybernetics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3930. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11739685_6
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