Recent Advances in Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiation

This bookcovers recent advances in Complex Automated Negotiations as a widely studiedemerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The book includes selectedrevised and extended papers from the 7th International Workshop on Agent-Based ComplexAutomated Negotiation (ACAN2014), which was held in Paris, France, in May2014. The book also includes brief introductions aboutAgent-based Complex Automated Negotiation which are based on tutorials providedin the workshop, and brief summaries and descriptions about the ANAC''14 (AutomatedNegotiating Agents Competition) competition, where authors of selectedfinalist agents explain the strategies and the ideas used by them. Thebook is targeted to academic and industrial researchers in various communitiesof autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, such as agreement technology,mechanism design, electronic commerce, related areas, as well as graduate,undergraduate, and PhD students working in those areas or having interest inthem.