Title
A Survey of Opponent Modeling Techniques in Automated Negotiation.
Abstract
A negotiation between agents is typically an incomplete information game, where the agents initially do not know their opponent’s preferences or strategy. This poses a challenge, as efficient and effective negotiation requires the bidding agent to take the other’s wishes and future behavior into account when deciding on a proposal. Therefore, in order to reach better and earlier agreements, an agent can apply learning techniques to construct a model of the opponent. There is a mature body of research in negotiation that focuses on modeling the opponent, but there exists no recent survey of commonly used opponent modeling techniques. This work aims to advance and integrate knowledge of the field by providing a comprehensive survey of currently existing opponent models in a bilateral negotiation setting. We discuss all possible ways opponent modeling has been used to benefit agents so far, and we introduce a taxonomy of currently existing opponent models based on their underlying learning techniques. We also present techniques to measure the success of opponent models and provide guidelines for deciding on the appropriate performance measures for every opponent model type in our taxonomy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.5555/2936924.2937008
AAMAS
Field
DocType
Citations 
Existential quantification,Computer science,Software agent,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Adversary,Bidding,Machine learning,Complete information,Negotiation
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tim Baarslag124223.57
Mark Hendrikx21316.16
Koen V. Hindriks323837.43
Catholijn M. Jonker42252241.53