Name
Title | ||
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Logic-based automated multi-issue bilateral negotiation in peer-to-peer e-marketplaces |
Abstract | ||
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We present a novel logic-based framework to automate multi-issue bilateral negotiation in e-commerce settings. The approach exploits logic as communication language among agents, and optimization techniques in order to find Pareto-efficient agreements. We introduce $${\mathcal{P}}({\mathcal{N}})$$ , a propositional logic extended with concrete domains, which allows one to model relations among issues (both numerical and non-numerical ones) via logical entailment, differently from well-known approaches that describe issues as uncorrelated. Through $${\mathcal{P}}({\mathcal{N}})$$ it is possible to represent buyer's request, seller's supply and their respective preferences as formulas endowed with a formal semantics, e.g., "if I spend more than 30000 驴 for a sedan then I want more than a two-years warranty and a GPS system included". We mix logic and utility theory in order to express preferences in a qualitative and quantitative way. We illustrate the theoretical framework, the logical language, the one-shot negotiation protocol we adopt, and show we are able to compute Pareto-efficient outcomes, using a mediator to solve an optimization problem. We prove the computational adequacy of our method by studying the complexity of the problem of finding Pareto-efficient solutions in our setting. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2008 | 10.1007/s10458-008-9033-1 | Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Electronic marketplaces,Knowledge representation,Utility theory,Ontologies,Logic languages Pareto efficiency | Ontology (information science),Knowledge representation and reasoning,Logical consequence,Peer-to-peer,Computer science,Warranty,Propositional calculus,Theoretical computer science,Optimization problem,Negotiation | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
16 | 3 | 1387-2532 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
13 | 0.60 | 23 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azzurra Ragone | 1 | 511 | 40.86 |
| Tommaso Di Noia | 2 | 1857 | 152.07 |
| Eugenio Di Sciascio | 3 | 1733 | 147.71 |
| Francesco M. Donini | 4 | 3481 | 452.47 |