An Extended Alternating-Offers Bargaining Protocol for Automated Negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems

Pinata Winoto, Gordon I. McCalla, Julita Vassileva

Abstract: This paper focuses on the study of bilateral bargaining protocol for competitive agents within the context of automated negotiation. Some modifications are proposed to improve the classical alternating-offers bargaining model and corresponding experimentation is designed to study the advantages/ disadvantages of this modified bargaining.