Negotiation by Abduction and Relaxation

Chiaki Sakama and Katsumi Inoue

Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'07), pages 1018-1025, 2007.

Abstract

This paper studies a logical framework for automated negotiation between two agents. We suppose an agent who has a knowledge base represented by a logic program. Then, we introduce methods of constructing counter-proposals in response to proposals made by an agent. To this end, we combine the techniques of extended abduction in artificial intelligence and relaxation in cooperative query answering for databases. These techniques are respectively used for producing conditional proposals and neighborhood proposals in the process of negotiation. We provide a negotiation protocol based on the exchange of these proposals and develop procedures for computing new proposals.

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