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Engineering automated negotiations
To make automated negotiation widely used in real scenarios, it is necessary
to develop advanced software systems that are able to carry out such negotiation in those
scenarios. However, although much work has been done in automated negotiation, most of
these efforts have been focused on the development of negotiation protocols and strategies
and only a few are centred on software frameworks for automated negotiation. We are
concerned with the engineering aspect of automated negotiation. Specifically, we detail a
software framework to develop automated negotiations of service level agreements. Unlike
other proposals, we provide a detailed description of elements for full decision-making
support including evaluating offers, strategy selection, building a market and opponents
model, and creating counterproposals