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This paper proposes a multi-demand negotiation model in discrete domain. To make the bargaining more realistic, we equip our negotiating agents with fuzzy concession strategies modelled by fuzzy rules. Specifically, while keeping the preference on agent’s demands unchanged during the course of negotiation, negotiating agents keep can give up several demands in each round at their will. In addition, we experimentally studied our fuzzy negotiation model and reveal the relationships among various factors involved and different concession strategies.
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‘-+-’ line is ‘titForTatSmaller’ strategy(S1). ‘-o ’ line is ‘titForTatNormal’ strategy(S2). ‘-*.’ line is ‘titForTitLarger’ strategy(S3). And ‘-x-’ line is ‘random’ strategy(S4).
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This work was partly supported by Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2016A030313231), National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC) (No. 14ZDB015), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 6197024010).
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Yang, Y., Luo, X. (2019). A Multi-demand Negotiation Model with Fuzzy Concession Strategies. In: Rutkowski, L., Scherer, R., Korytkowski, M., Pedrycz, W., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zurada, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11509. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20915-5_61
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