GENIUS: AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FOR SUPPORTING THE DESIGN OF GENERIC AUTOMATED NEGOTIATORS
GENIUS: AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FOR SUPPORTING THE DESIGN OF GENERIC AUTOMATED NEGOTIATORS
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8640.2012.00463.x
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发表时间：
2014-02-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Jonker, Catholijn M.
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作者：
Lin, Raz;Kraus, Sarit;Jonker, Catholijn M.
自动谈判器的设计是近年来大量研究的热点。然而，由于在创建可以在多个域中进行谈判并与人类对手进行谈判的广义代理方面存在困难，许多自动谈判者都是特定于域的，并且他们的行为不能推广到其他域。其中一些困难来自于领域内固有的差异，需要了解和学习谈判者对领域问题的不同偏好，以及谈判者可以采取的不同策略。在本文中，我们提出了一个系统，使缓解的困难，在设计过程中的一般自动谈判称为天才，谈判与智能多用途使用模拟的一般环境。随着新领域、电子商务和其他需要自动化谈判的应用的不断引入，通用自动化谈判者比为特定领域设计的代理具有许多好处和优势。基于使用Genius由人类受试者设计的自动化代理进行的实验，我们提供了定量和定性的结果来说明其功效。最后，我们还分析了最近的自动双边谈判的竞争，是基于天才。我们的研究结果显示了使用Genius的优势和潜在好处，以及它如何促进一般自动谈判者的设计。
The design of automated negotiators has been the focus of abundant research in recent years. However, due to difficulties involved in creating generalized agents that can negotiate in several domains and against human counterparts, many automated negotiators are domain specific and their behavior cannot be generalized for other domains. Some of these difficulties arise from the differences inherent within the domains, the need to understand and learn negotiators' diverse preferences concerning issues of the domain, and the different strategies negotiators can undertake. In this paper we present a system that enables alleviation of the difficulties in the design process of general automated negotiators termed Genius, a General Environment for Negotiation with Intelligent multi-purpose Usage Simulation. With the constant introduction of new domains, e-commerce and other applications, which require automated negotiations, generic automated negotiators encompass many benefits and advantages over agents that are designed for a specific domain. Based on experiments conducted with automated agents designed by human subjects using Genius we provide both quantitative and qualitative results to illustrate its efficacy. Finally, we also analyze a recent automated bilateral negotiators competition that was based on Genius. Our results show the advantages and underlying benefits of using Genius and how it can facilitate the design of general automated negotiators.