Master Project - Negotiation with Time Pressure

By Alexander Dirkzwager

Litrature Survey

An Investigation of Autonomous Negotiating Agent Dealing With Time Pressure

For a list of papers and a brief summary 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

The Effect of Time Pressure on the Behavior of Autonomous Negotiating Agents

Planning

Meetings