Masterthesis: Opponent Models in Bilateral Negotiation

by Mark Hendrikx.

Literature Survey

The newest version can be found on the ​SVN repository

Main Research Questions

• How to measure the quality of opponent models?
• Are agents using opponent models "better" than other agents?
• How do opponent models compare regarding accuracy, convergence, and computational cost?
• How to create an opponent model which is better than the state-of-the-art?

Meeting

​Meeting agendas and minutes

Planning

The datas in the overview below refer to deadlines.

• Validated all decoupled agents (13-01-12)

• Study for exam (15-01-12 -> 03-02-12)

• First version of short paper ACAN (18-02-12)

• Finished ANAC2012 agent for qualification round (18-03-12)

• Finished Camera ready of short paper ACAN (13-04-12)

• Finished editing OM paper (20-04-12)

• ANAC competition (07-05-12)

• ANAC paper (??/??/??)

• Experiment 1: Performance gain/loss due to usage of opponent models (??/??/??)

• Experiment 2: Accuracy of opponent models (??/??/??)

• Experiment 3: Implement new opponent models (??/??/??)

• Conference (03/06/12 - 13/06/12)

• Conference paper about opponent models (22/06/12)

• Draft of masterthesis (10/07/12)

• Send invitiations and final version of masterthesis (25/07/12)

• Thesis presentation (16/08/12)