[agents] New Book: Principles of Automated Negotiation (Fatima, Kraus, Wooldridge)

[Michael Wooldridge]

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              PRINCIPLES of AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION
      by Shaheen Fatima, Sarit Kraus, and Michael Wooldridge

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SUMMARY

With an increasing number of applications in the context of
multi-agent systems, automated negotiation is a rapidly growing
area. Written by top researchers in the field, this state-of-the-art
treatment of the subject explores key issues involved in the design of
negotiating agents, covering strategic, heuristic, and axiomatic
approaches. The authors discuss the potential benefits of automated
negotiation as well as the unique challenges it poses for computer
scientists and for researchers in artificial intelligence. They also
consider possible applications and give readers a feel for the types
of domains where automated negotiation is already being deployed. This
book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in computer
science who are interested in multi-agent systems. It will also appeal
to negotiation researchers from disciplines such as management and
business studies, psychology and economics.  


TABLE OF CONTENTS

* List of illustrations

* Preface

* Summary of key notation

* Chapter 1: Introduction

 1.1   The Structure of Negotiation
 1.2   Parameters of Automated Negotiation
 1.3   A Strategic Approach
 1.4   Desiderata for Automated Negotiation
 1.5   Advantages and Disadvantages of Automated Negotiation
 1.6   Structure of this Book
 1.7   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 2: Games in Normal Form

 2.1   Zero-sum and Non-zero-sum Games
 2.2   Pure and Mixed Strategies
 2.3   Rational Behaviour in Strategic Settings
 2.4   Solution Concepts
 2.5   Solution Properties
 2.6   Social Measures of Utility
 2.7   A First Glimpse of Bargaining as a Game

* Chapter 3: Games in Extensive Form

 3.1   A Formal Definition
 3.2   Types of games and strategies
 3.3   Nash Equilibrium
 3.4   Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium
 3.5   Beliefs and Sequential Rationality
 3.6   Weak Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium
 3.7   Sequential Equilibrium
 3.8   The Role of Information

* Chapter 4: Negotiation Domains

 4.1   Classifying Negotiation Domains
 4.2   Some Example Negotiation Domains
 4.3   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 5: Strategic Analysis of Single-Issue Negotiation

 5.1   The Negotiation Model
 5.2   An Infinite Horizon Alternating Offers Protocol
 5.3   A Finite Horizon Alternating Offers Protocol
 5.4   Negotiation with Imperfect Information
 5.5   Indivisible Issue Negotiation
 5.6   Negotiating an Issue with Discrete Values
 5.7   More on Negotiation Protocols
 5.8   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 6: Strategic Analysis of Multi-issue Negotiation

 6.1   Negotiation Procedures
 6.2   The Negotiation Model
 6.3   Negotiation with Perfect Information
 6.4   Negotiation with Imperfect Information
 6.5   Dealing with Indivisible Issues
 6.6   Negotiating Multiple Issues with Discrete and Continuous Values
 6.7   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 7: The Negotiation Agenda

 7.1   Negotiation Agenda
 7.2   Optimal Agendas: Package-Deal Procedure
 7.3   Optimal Agendas: Sequential Procedure
 7.4   Optimal Agendas: Simultaneous Procedure
 7.5   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 8: Multilateral Negotiations

 8.1   Alternating Offers Protocol with Multiple Bargainers
 8.2   Auction Protocols
 8.3   Contract Net Protocol
 8.4   Two-sided Matching
 8.5   Bargaining for Resource Reallocation
 8.6   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 9: Heuristic Approaches

 9.1   Generating Counter-Offers
 9.2   Predicting Opponent Preferences and Generating Counter-offers
 9.3   Generating Optimal Agendas
 9.4   Design and Evaluation of Heuristic Strategies
 9.5   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 10: Man-machine Negotiations
 10.1   Agent Decision-Making
 10.2   Modeling Human Negotiators
 10.3   Virtual Agent Negotiators
 10.4   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 11: Axiomatic Analysis of Negotiation

 11.1   Background
 11.2   Single-Issue Negotiation
 11.3   Multi-Issue Negotiation
 11.4   An Alternative View of the Nash Bargaining Solution
 11.5   Axiomatic versus Noncooperative Models of Bargaining
 11.6   Historial Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 12: Applications

 12.1   Business Process Management
 12.2   Electronic Commerce
 12.3   Grid Computing
 12.4   Load Balancing
 12.5   M-services
 12.6   Data, Task, and Resource Allocation
 12.7   Resolving Policy Disputes Over Natural Resources
 12.8   Supply Chain Management in Logistics
 12.9   Event Scheduling
 12.10   Crowdsourcing
 12.11   Assisting and Training Human Negotiators
 12.12   Energy Exchange in Remote Communities
 12.13   Web-Based Software Negotiation Systems

* Chapter 13: Related Topics

 13.1   Social Choice
 13.2   Argumentation
 13.3   Fair Division
 13.4   Historical Notes and Further Reading

* Chapter 14: Concluding Remarks

* Appendix A. Proofs

* References


PUBLICATION DETAILS

"Principles of Automated Negotiation"
 by Shaheen Fatima, Sarit Kraus, and Michael Wooldridge. 
 Published by Cambridge University Press in November 2014. 
 Hardback; 289 pages; 40 b/w illustrations. 
 ISBN  9781107002548