CSCW协同建组自动协商模型研究

文章提出了支持协同工作组建立的自动协商模型,定义了agent协商协议、协商算法和协商agent用于产生及评估offer、counter-offer的效益决策函数,分析了算法时间耗用,与现有协商模型和协商建组FITS/CL框架进行对比,验证了该模型在支持用户参加多个协同组、进行多协商方面的优势,解决了组建立中的群体决策问题,对探索自动建组方式进行有益尝试。     

基于拍卖博弈的电子商务自动协商

为提高电子商务自动协商系统效率,本文以拍卖博弈理论为基础,提出并实现了一种基于拍卖博弈的自动协商Agent模型,并在此基础上实现了一个基于拍卖博弈的电子商务自动协商原型系统,应用于一个企业敏捷供应链管理系统中实现自动协商交易。     

多智能体系统中的协商模型

目前,对多智能体系统的应用多是以开放的、复杂的、变化的网络为平台,为了更好地与环境相匹配,同对提高智能体之间协商的效率,从全局与单个智能体两方面着手,提出了一种新的MAS全局模型,并相应地提出了全局协调Agent的三维模型以及智能体之间的协商模型。通过这一系列模型的模拟实现,证明了此协商模型是正确的与接近自然的。从理论上基本上解决了与当前流行的基于网络的各种先进的智能系统,分布式问题求解等领域的衔接,因而有一定的指导意义并具有广阔的发展前景。     

Agents in Electronic Commerce: Component Technologies for Automated Negotiation and Coalition Formation

Automated negotiation and coalition formation among self-interested agents are playing an increasingly important role in electronic commerce. Such agents cannot be coordinated by externally imposing their strategies. Instead the interaction protocols have to be designed so that each agent is motivated to follow the strategy that the protocol designer wants it to follow. This paper reviews six component technologies that we have developed for making such interactions less manipulable and more efficient in terms of the computational processes and the outcomes: 1. OCSM-contracts in marginal cost based contracting, 2. leveled commitment contracts, 3. anytime coalition structure generation with worst case guarantees, 4. trading off computation cost against optimization quality within each coalition, 5. distributing search among insincere agents, and 6. unenforced contract execution. Each of these technologies represents a different way of battling self-interest and combinatorial complexity simultaneously. This is a key battle when multi-agent systems move into large-scale open settings.     

基于Web的NSA和NSS集成的商务洽谈系统

商务洽谈是解决电子商务冲突的最好方法之一。该文研究和讨论了基于Web的集成商务洽谈的两大实现技术：洽谈软件代理NSA和洽谈支持系统NSS,并给出了一个基于Web的NSS和NSA集成的商务洽谈系统框架。     

信任协商的职责行为和约束

信任协商是分布式环境下陌生实体通过交替地披露属性证书建立信任关系的有效方法。分析了现有研究的不足,给出了职责行为和约束条件的定义,并在此基础上引入状态变化系统,定义了信任协商抽象模型。该模型不仅刻画了协商实体之间的交互性,而且也刻画了授权操作的自主性。最后提出了扩展的Ack策略,对敏感信息的保护进行了分析。     

Towards Autonomous and Automatic Evaluation and Negotiation in Agent-Mediated Internet Marketplaces

In an agent-mediated B2C Internet marketplace, agents, mobile or stationary, can act on behalf of customers to complete tasks involved in buying and selling products. In this paper, we first present a fuzzy-set based two-phase evaluation model allowing mobile agents to evaluate and filter online e-shops, and evaluate offers autonomously and automatically at the request from a consumer. The fuzzy evaluation criterion takes into account not only the attributes of offers, but also the reputation of corresponding e-shops. }Meanwhile, the two-phase operations can help reduce the scale of mobile agents dispatched to e-shops and thus reduce the network workload. Based on the same fuzzy evaluation criterion, an auction-like negotiation model is presented, where the consumer agent can autonomously determine the initial offer and negotiate with multiple shops simultaneously. The final best offer is determined not only by the attributes of the offers, but also the attributes of the e-shops as well as the preference the consumer specified. Finally, our models presented in this paper have been implemented in a prototype system where we conducted some experiments to evaluate their performance.     

Cooperation and Competition in ALIAS: A Logic Framework for Agents that Negotiate

This paper presents ALIAS, an agent architecture based on intelligent logic agents, where the main form of agent reasoning is abduction. The system is particularly suited for solving problems where knowledge is incomplete, where agents may need to make reasonable hypotheses about the problem domain and other agents, and where the raised hypotheses have to be consistent for the overall set of agents. ALIAS agents are pro-active, exhibiting a goal-directed behavior, and autonomous, since each one can solve problems using its own private knowledge base. ALIAS agents are also social, because they are able to interact with other agents, in order to cooperatively solve problems. The coordination mechanisms are modeled by means of LAILA, a logic-based language which allows to express intra-agent reasoning and inter-agent coordination. As an application, we show how LAILA can be used to implement inter-agent dialogues, e.g., for negotiation. In particular, LAILA is well-suited to coordinate the process of negotiation aimed at exchanging resources between agents, thus allowing them to execute the plans to achieve their goals.