Evaluating Automated Negotiations

Yasser Mohammad

Abstract: Automated Negotiation (AN) is a process for reaching agreement between agents representing self-interested parties. Several negotiation protocols and strategies have been proposed over the years. In this paper, we argue that evaluating a negotiation session is not straightforward and depends on several contextual factors. The paper proposes a multifaceted evaluation criteria for negotiation sessions that can be adjusted to the evaluation context. The proposed evaluation criteria are then applied to several negotiation scenarios with state-of-the-art negotiation algorithms.