A MAS-based infrastructure for negotiation and its application to a water-right market

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-013-9443-8This paper presents a MAS-based infrastructure for the specification of a negotiation framework that handles multiple negotiation protocols in a coherent and flexible way. Although it may be used to implement one single type of agreement mechanism, it has been designed in such a way that multiple mechanisms may be available at any given time, to be activated and tailored on demand (on-line) by participating agents. The framework is also generic enough so that new protocols may be easily added. This infrastructure has been successfully used in a case study to implement a simulation tool as a component of a larger framework based on an electronic market of water rights.This paper was partially funded by the Consolider AT project CSD2007-0022 INGENIO 2010 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; the MICINN projects TIN2011-27652-C03-01 and TIN2009-13839-C03-01; and the Valencian Prometeo project 2008/051.Alfonso Espinosa, B.; Botti Navarro, VJ.; Garrido Tejero, A.; Giret Boggino, AS. (2014). A MAS-based infrastructure for negotiation and its application to a water-right market. Information Systems Frontiers. 16(2):183-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-013-9443-8S183199162Alberola, J.M., Such, J.M., Espinosa, A., Botti, V., García-Fornes, A. (2008). Magentix: a multiagent platform integrated in linux. In EUMAS (pp. 1–10).Alfonso, B., Vivancos, E., Botti, V., García-Fornes, A. (2011). Integrating jason in a multi-agent platform with support for interaction protocols. 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