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title: "Deals Among Rational Agents"
authors:
  - "Jeffrey S. Rosenschein"
  - "Michael R. Genesereth"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/17"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0017.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "91-98"
track: "Automated Reasoning"
keywords:
---

# Deals Among Rational Agents

Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, Michael R. Genesereth

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 91-98.

## Abstract

A formal framework is presented that models communication and promises in multi-agent interactions. This f1·amework genera lizes previous work on cooperation withont communication, and shows t}u~ ability of communication to resolve conflicts among agents having disparate goals. Using a deal-making mechanism, agents are able to coordinate and cooperate more easily than in the communicat.ion-free model. In addition, there are certain types of interactions where communication makes possible mutually bcn~ficial activity that is otherwise impossible to coordinate.