Specification of Trade-Off Strategies for Agents: A Model-Driven Approach
| Type of publication: | Inproceedings |
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| Booktitle: | Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XIII |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Volume: | 7852 |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Pages: | 40 - 55 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Location: | Berlin, Heidelberg |
| Note: | Revised and extended version of AAMAS 2012 workshop paper |
| ISBN: | 978-3-642-39865-0 |
| URL: | http://link.springer.com/chapt... |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-39866-7_3 |
| Abstract: | Negotiation is an important part of today’s business pro- cesses on an inter-enterprise level. Agent research offers a variety of ap- proaches and tools to automate negotiations. Currently these technolo- gies have the drawback that the human manager retains the responsi- bility for the outcome of a negotiation, but this person most often does not have the required knowledge to define the agent’s behavior by him- self. To increase acceptability of automated negotiation approaches, we consider it necessary that human negotiators can specify the strategies for the agents. In this article we present a meta model, which enables human negotiators to specify trade-off strategies. Trade-off strategies are a key concept in negotiation in general. This meta model is based on the Ecore meta model. The specified trade-off strategies can automatically be transformed into representations that can be used by an agent. Our meta model provides a model and a graphical notation that allows it to create graphical editors for trade-off strategies. Therefore, it becomes possible to specify trade-off strategies without any programming knowledge. |
| Keywords: | automated negotiation, Model Driven Development, trade-off strategies |
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