Simulation of negotiation policies in distributed multiagent resource allocation

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • A. Artikis
  • G.M.P. O'Hare
  • K. Stathis
  • G. Vouros
Book title Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII
Book subtitle 8th international workshop, ESAW 2007, Athens, Greece, October 22-24, 2007: revised selected papers
ISBN
  • 9783540876533
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783540876540
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 8th International Workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents World" (ESAW 07), Athens, Greece
Pages (from-to) 224-239
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
In distributed approaches to multiagent resource allocation, the agents belonging to a society negotiate deals in small groups at a local level, driven only by their own rational interests. We can then observe and study the effects such negotiation has at the societal level, for instance in terms of the economic efficiency of the emerging allocations. Such effects may be studied either using theoretical tools or by means of simulation. In this paper, we present a new simulation platform that can be used to compare the effects of different negotiation policies and we report on initial experiments aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the dynamics of distributed multiagent resource allocation.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87654-0_12
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