The Curious Negotiator -- committing only to that which is maximally non-committal.

尽管围绕着企业对企业电子商务大肆宣传，但由于谈判问题的复杂性和所涉交易的高价值，几乎没有什么业务是完全自动进行的。 需要复杂和可靠的协商技术来解决这个缺点。 本项目的研究范围超出了电子商务，涉及广义的知情谈判。 它将创造可靠的自动谈判者，信息是他们的战略武器。 它将建立提取可靠市场信息的系统。 整个项目嵌入电子机构，预示着未来的电子市场。

Despite the hype surrounding electronic business-to-business commerce, little business is conducted completely automatically as yet due to the complexity of the issues being negotiated and by the high value of the deals involved. Sophisticated and reliable negotiation technology is required to address this shortcoming. This project looks beyond electronic business to informed negotiation in a broad sense. It will create reliable automatic negotiators for which information is a strategic weapon. It will build systems to extract reliable market information. The whole project is embedded in electronic institutions that foreshadow the electronic markets of tomorrow.