Automatic Multi-agent Negotiation in E-procurement

摘要：

With the growing trend toward the use of e-commerce, both buyers and suppliers are placing great emphasis on information technology to be competitive. The emergence of E-procurement offers both parties a great opportunity to realize substantial transaction cost deduction and higher efficiency in cooperation. While every step in a procurement process is fulfilled on the Internet, on-line negotiation plays a vital role in bargaining on the price and decision making. This paper outlines the research background and status quo of agent technology, analyzes the application of multi-agent in automatic negotiation and focus on negotiation process design, environment and its three dimensions, negotiation protocol, model and strategy under the bilateral negotiation with multi-attribute.

关键词： agent multi-agent system automatic negotiation

作者: Xiaobo Tang Ninghan Zhang Siyan Gong

作者单位: School of Information Management Wuhan University Wuhan, P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第三届IEEE无线通讯、网络技术暨移动计算国际会议

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2007-09-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）