This book reports on an outstanding thesis that has significantlyadvanced the state-of-the-art in the area of automated negotiation. It describes an innovative negotiating agent frameworkthat enables systematic exploration of the space of possible negotiationstrategies by recombining different agent components.
Introduction.- Background.- A Component-based Architecture to Explore the Space of Negotiation Strategies.- Effective Acceptance Conditions.- Accepting Optimally with Incomplete Information.- Measuring the Performance of Online Opponent Models.- Predicting the Performance of Opponent Models.- A Quantitative Concession-Based Classification Method of Bidding Strategies.- Optimal Non-adaptive Concession Strategies.- Putting the Pieces Together.- Conclusion.