Designing Agents with Negotiation Capabilities

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Author(s): Jana Polgar (Monash University, Australia)
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 6
Source title: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-553-5.ch141
ISBN13: 9781591405535
ISBN10: 159140553X
EISBN13: 9781591407942

Keywords: Information Resources Management / Information Science Reference / Library and Information Science

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Agents are viewed as the next significant software abstraction, and it is expected they will become as ubiquitous as graphical user interfaces are today. Agents are specialized programs designed to provide services to their users. Multiagent systems have a key capability to reallocate tasks among the members, which may result in significant savings and improvements in many domains, such as resource allocation, scheduling, e-commerce, and so forth. In the near future, agents will roam the Internet, selling and buying information and services. These agents will evolve from their present day form - simple carriers of transactions - to efficient decision makers. It is envisaged that the decision-making processes and interactions between agents will be very fast (Kephart, 1998).

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