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On Monotonic Mixed Tactics and Strategies for Bilateral Multi-Issue Negotiations

J. Richter; Matthias Klusch; R. Kowalczyk
In: AAMAS '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2010), 9th, May 10-14, Toronto, ON, Canada, Pages 1609-1610, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 2010.

Abstract

We present an initial comparative evaluation between monotonic mixing and the traditional linear weighted combination of tactics in a multi-issue negotiation scenario. As the traditional mixing method may produce a non-monotonic sequence of utilities of proposed offers in case imitative and non-imitative tactics are mixed together (even when weights are static) we demonstrate that both agents can gain higher utilities in many scenarios when using monotonic mixing.