Master Project - Negotiation with Discount Factor

By Alexander Dirkzwager

Litrature Survey

The use of discount factor and reservation value within different negotiation settings

List and summary of papers. Click here.

Structure of Survey

1. intro
   
   • Explain the domain of negotiation (why its useful)
     
   • briefly explain the concept of time pressure
     
2. Relate work
   
3. negotation environments
   
   • Briefly describes the different negotiation enironment
     
   • Focus is on bi-lateral multi issue negotiation
     
4. The effects of time pressure to the negotiation process
   
   • advantages/disadvantages
     
   • the speed of agreement
     
   • agent strategy (general)
     
5. survey of agents (from ANAC2011)(strategy components)
   
   1. agents strategy dealing with tim pressure
      
   2. Identifying/learning opponents discount
      
6. future work
   
7. conclusion
   

Thesis

Planning

Meetings