{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Negotiations Over Time in a Multi-Agent Environment: Preliminary Report","authors":[{"name":"Sarit Kraus","slug":"sarit-kraus","given":"Sarit","family":"Kraus","affiliation":""},{"name":"Jonathan Wilkenfeld","slug":"jonathan-wilkenfeld","given":"Jonathan","family":"Wilkenfeld","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"One of the major foci of research in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) is the design of automated agents which can interact effectively in order to cooperate in problem-solving. Negotiation is recognized as an important means by which inter-agent cooperation is achieved. In this paper we suggest a strategic model of negotiation for N agents (N 2: 3), that takes the passage of time during the negotiation process itself into consideration. Changes in the agent 's preferences over time will change their strategies in the negotiation and, as a result , the agreements they are willing to reach. We will show that in this model the delay in reaching such agreements can be shortened and in some cases avoided altogether.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/9","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/0009.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/9.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/bibtex/9","volume":{"slug":"1991","title":"Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1991","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/","year":1991,"location":"Sydney, New South Wales, Australia","dates":"24-30 August 1991","editors":"John Mylopoulos and Ray Reiter","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Architectures & Languages","track":"Architectures & Languages","number":9,"pages":{"first":56,"last":60},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}