Welcome to the Negotiation Project

Research Projects

Opponent Models in Negotiation

Opponent models in bilateral negotiation.

Time Pressure in Negotiation

Time pressure in bilateral negotiation.

GENIUS

GENIUS is a negotiation environment that implements an open architecture for heterogeneous negotiating agents. It provides the basis for an implementation of a testbed for negotiating agents that includes a set of negotiation problems for benchmarking agents, a library of negotiation strategies, and analytical tools to evaluate an agent's performance and their strategies allows user.

SVN Branches

Branch	Features	Status
GeniusBI	Cell 2	Cell 3
GeniusGUI	Cell 5	Cell 6
GeniusS	Cell 5	Cell 6
GeniusWeb	Cell 5	Cell 6
GeniusWebDelft	Cell 5	Cell 6
GeniusWebSimulator	Cell 5	Cell 6
Negotiator	Cell 5	Cell 6
Negotiator20	Cell 5	Cell 6
NegotiatorGRID	Cell 5	Cell 6
NegotiatorGUI	Version used to run ANAC competition. Non-web version of Genius which contains BOA framework and distributed tournament running.	Active
NegotiatorProtocol	Cell 5	Cell 6
NegotiatorWeb	Cell 5	Cell 6

NegotiatorGUI - used by Dmytro as version that will be used to run the ANAC competition.
GeniusBI - used by Yinon Oshrat
GeniusWeb - a web interface for human-haman and human-machine negotiation experiments (used by Dmytro and Yinon)
GeniusS - the main development branch (maintained by Dmytro, Tim and Colin)
NegotiatorWeb - will be deleted.
NegotiatorGRID - a branch used by Cristina
NegotiatorProtocol - used by Rogier (VU).

Advertising material

Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC'10)
GENIUS folder

Documentation

User guide
Architecture overview
Programmer's guide
Technologies used in Genius

GENIUS in Education

IN4010 Master course AI Techniques (first-year master course).
Summer schools

Agents implemented in GENIUS

NMS Agent (Bayesian Agent)
Zero Intelligence Agent (Random Walker)
ABMP Agent
Trade-Off Agent