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Alongside the widespread adoption of AI technology throughout the business world, automated negotiation is similarly gaining more interest within the multiagent system (MAS) research community. This interest has prompted the development of research-oriented automated negotiation platforms like GENIUS. This paper introduces NegMAS, Negotiations Managed by Agent Simulations/Negotiation MultiAgent System, which was developed to facilitate research and development of agents that negotiate in dynamic situations characterized by interrelated utility functions with all negotiation related decisions managed by agents.
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NegMAS is available at https://www.github.com/yasserfarouk/negmas.
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Amy Greenwald is supported in part by NSF Award CMMI-1761546.
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Mohammad, Y., Nakadai, S., Greenwald, A. (2021). NegMAS: A Platform for Automated Negotiations. In: Uchiya, T., Bai, Q., Marsá Maestre, I. (eds) PRIMA 2020: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12568. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69322-0_23
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