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We describe an extensive application of argument-based decision making and negotiation to a real-world scenario in which an investor agent and an estate manager agent negotiate to lease a land for a computer assembly factory. Agents are equipped with beliefs, goals, preferences, and argument-based decision-making mechanisms taking uncertainties into account. Goals are classified as either structural or contractual. The negotiation process is divided into two phases. In the first phase, following a recently proposed framework [8] the investor agent find suitable locations based on its structural goals such as requirements about transportation; the estate manager agent determines favored tenants based on its structural goals such as requirements about resource conservation. In the second phase, we introduce a new novel argument-based negotiation protocol for agents to agree on contract to fulfill their contractual goals such as waste disposal cost.
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Dung, P.M., Thang, P.M., Hung, N.D. (2009). Argument-Based Decision Making and Negotiation in E-Business: Contracting a Land Lease for a Computer Assembly Plant. In: Fisher, M., Sadri, F., Thielscher, M. (eds) Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. CLIMA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02734-5_10
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