Curious Negotiator

n negotiation the exchange of information is as important as the exchange of offers. The curious negotiator is a multiagent system with three types of agents. Two negotiation agents, each representing an individual, develop consecutive offers, supported by information, whilst requesting information from its opponent. A mediator agent, with experience of prior negotiations, suggests how the negotiation may develop. A failed negotiation is a missed opportunity. An observer agent analyses failures looking for new opportunities. The integration of negotiation theory and data mining enables the curious negotiator to discover and exploit negotiation opportunities. Trials will be conducted in electronic business

Investigating the Evolution of Electronic Markets

Abstract. Markets evolve through ‘entrepreneurial ’ intervention which is based on intuition and on timely information. An electronic market has been constructed in the laboratory as a collaborative virtual environment to identify timely entrepreneurial information for e-markets. This information is distilled from individual signals in the markets themselves and from signals observed on the Internet. Distributed, concurrent, time-constrained data mining methods are managed using business process management technology to extract timely, reliable information from this inherently unreliable environment. 1