DR-NEGOTIATE – A System for Automated Agent Negotiation with Defeasible Logic-Based Strategies

T. Skylogiannis, G. Antoniou, N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Bikakis, “DR-NEGOTIATE - A System for Automated Agent Negotiation with Defeasible Logic-Based Strategies”, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier, 63(2), pp. 362-380, 2007.

This paper reports on a system for automated agent negotiation, based on a formal and executable approach to capture the behavior of parties involved in a negotiation. It uses the JADE agent framework, and its major distinctive feature is the use of declarative negotiation strategies. The negotiation strategies are expressed in a declarative rules language, defeasible logic, and are applied using the implemented system DR-DEVICE. The key ideas and the overall system architecture are described, and a particular negotiation case is presented in detail.