Building Automated Negotiators

Professor Nick Jennings
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
University of Southampton

Sunday 11th April 2004, 3:00 pm

Apex International Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HS (street map)

Computer systems in which autonomous software agents negotiate with one another in order to come to mutually acceptable agreements are likely to become ubiquitous in the next generation of networked systems (e.g., Semantic Web, eCommerce, Grid Computing, Pervasive Computing). In such systems, the agents will be required to participate in a range of negotiation scenarios and exhibit a range of negotiation behaviours (depending on the context). To this end, this talk explores the issues involved in designing and implementing automated negotiators that can participate in on-line auctions and bi-lateral negotiations for a number of real world applications.

About the speaker

See Professor Jennings' home page at www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/