Distributed Rational Decision Making

Abstract

IntroductionAutomated negotiation systems with self-interested agents are becoming increasinglyimportant. One reason for this is the technology push of a growing standardizedcommunication infrastructure--Internet, WWW, NII, EDI, KQML, FIPA, Concordia,Voyager, Odyssey, Telescript, Java, etc--over which separately designed agentsbelonging to different organizations can interact in an open environment in realtimeand safely carry out transactions. The second reason is strong application...