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title: "Negotiations Over Time in a Multi-Agent Environment: Preliminary Report"
authors:
  - "Sarit Kraus"
  - "Jonathan Wilkenfeld"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/9"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/0009.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1991
pages: "56-60"
track: "Architectures & Languages"
keywords:
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# Negotiations Over Time in a Multi-Agent Environment: Preliminary Report

Sarit Kraus, Jonathan Wilkenfeld

*Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 56-60.

## 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.