AGENT NEGOTIATION IN A VIRTUAL MARKETPLACE

摘要

We are in the process of building DALIA - an environment for distributed, artificial, and linguistically competent intelligent agents that communicate in natural language and perform commonsense reasoning in a highly dynamic and uncertain environment. There are several challenges in this effort that we do not touch on in this paper. Instead, we focus here on the design of a virtual marketplace where buying and selling agents that learn from experience negotiate autonomously on behalf of their clients. Buying and selling agents enter the marketplace with an 'attitude'formulated as a complex function of prior experience(s), market conditions, product information as well as personal characteristics such as importance of time vs. importance of price and the commitment level to the purchase/sale of the product.