Multilateral Negotiations in Distributed, Multi-agent Environment

摘要: The paper describes the problem of multilateral negotiations, conducted in a distributed environment. In negotiation, more than two partners participate simultaneously. Multilateral negotiation processes are important case where objects bounded with by certain constraints (e.g. physical constraints), or if participants trade different bundles commodities. commodities structure may then force necessity negotiation. interaction protocol for based on FIPA's protocol, is presented. A simple, yet representative example presented to illustrate problem. results computer simulations proposed process