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In this paper we present the Believable Negotiator — the formalism behind a Web business negotiation technology that treats relationships as a commodity. It supports relationship building, maintaining, evolving, and passing to other agents, and utilises such relationships in agent interaction. The Believable Negotiator also takes in account the “relationship gossip” — the information, supplied by its information providing agents, about the position of respective agents in their networks of relationships beyond the trading space. It is embodied in a 3D web space, that is translated to different virtual worlds platforms, enabling the creation of an integrated 3D trading space, geared for Web 3.0.
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Debenham, J., Simoff, S. (2012). ‘Believable’ Agents Build Relationships on the Web. In: Omatu, S., De Paz Santana, J., González, S., Molina, J., Bernardos, A., Rodríguez, J. (eds) Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 151. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28765-7_9
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