Negotiating complex contracts

ABSTRACT

Work to date on computational models of negotiation has focused almost exclusively on defining contracts consisting of one or a few independent issues. Many real-world contracts, by contrast, consist of multiple inter-dependent issues. This paper describes a simulated annealing based approach appropriate for negotiating such complex contracts, evaluates its efficacy, and suggests potentially promising avenues for future work.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
        I.2.11 Distributed Artificial Intelligence

General Terms:
Algorithms

Keywords:
nonlinear negotiation