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)

• Paper ACAN
  • First version of short paper ACAN (18-02-12)
  • Finished Camera ready of short paper ACAN (13-04-12)

• ANAC competition
  • Deliver qualification round agent (18-03-12)
  • Deliver final agent (07-05-12)
  • ANAC paper (??/??/??)
  • ANAC presentatie (04/06/12)

• Experiments
  • Experiment 1: Performance gain/loss due to usage of opponent models
    • Full setup (15/05/12)
    • Tournament ran (23/05/12)
    • Analyzed (26/05/12)
  • Experiment 2: Accuracy of opponent models (03/06/12)
    • Full setup (18/05/12)
    • Tournament ran (30/05/12)
    • Analyzed (03/06/12)
  • Experiment 3: Better opponent model (??/??/??)

• AAMAS Conference (03/06/12 - 13/06/12)

• Deliver ATAI paper about opponent models (22/06/12)

• Deliver paper about accuracy measures (05/07/12)

• OM Paper
  • Finished draft (20-04-12)
  • Finished final version (??/??/??)

• Draft of masterthesis (15/07/12)

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

• Thesis presentation (16/08/12)