Time-Bounded Negotiation Mechanisms
Negotiating intentional constraints on services, solutions, and the negotiation process itself
- Assumptions and stipulations, goals and preferences
- Policies and principles, processes and mechanisms
- Technologies: Contract nets, KQML, AOP, Corba, etc.
Negotiating and optimizing agreement specifics
- Simple agreement mechanisms (e.g., splitting differences)
- Computational market mechanisms
- Dynamically construct markets tailored to specific tasks
- Libraries of market mechanisms, task-oriented market structures, and market agent types
- Market templates for standard negotiation task
- Standard types of consumers, producers, contractors, agents
- Cooperative and competitive bidders