A new multilateral multi-issue negotiation protocol and its application to a crisis management problem

Issue title: Negotiation and Scheduling Mechanisms for Multiagent Systems

Guest editors: Kwang Mong Simx, Minjie Zhangy and Takayuki Itoz

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hemaissia-Jeannin, Miniar^{a; b; *} | Seghrouchni, Amal El Fallah^b | Labreuche, Christophe^a

Affiliations: [a] THALES Research & Technology France, RD 128, 91767 Palaiseau Cedex, France | [b] Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR 7606, LIP6, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris, F-75005, France | [x] Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China | [y] University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia | [z] Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: miniar.hemaissia@thalesgroup.com

Abstract: In this paper, a new protocol to address multilateral multi-issue negotiation in a cooperative context is presented. Complex dependencies between multiple issues are considered by modelling the preferences of the agents with a multi-criteria decision aid tool, also enabling to extract relevant information on a proposal assessment. This information is used in the protocol to help in accelerating the search for a consensus between the cooperative agents. In addition, the negotiation procedure is defined to address distributed allocation problem and applied in a crisis management context, with the common objective of the agents considered in the preferences of a mediator agent.

DOI: 10.3233/MGS-2008-4107

Journal: Multiagent and Grid Systems, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 103-123, 2008