Conflicts between two or more parties arise for various reasons andperspectives. Thus, resolution of con-flicts frequently relies on some form of negotiation. Thispaper presents a general problem-solving framework for...Conflicts between two or more parties arise for various reasons andperspectives. Thus, resolution of con-flicts frequently relies on some form of negotiation. Thispaper presents a general problem-solving framework for modeling multi-issue multilateral negotiationusing fuzzy constraints. Agent negotiation is formulated as a distributed fuzzy constraintsatisfaction problem (DFCSP). Fuzzy constrains are thus used to naturally represent each agent''sdesires involving imprecision and human conceptualization, particularly when lexical imprecision andsubjective matters are concerned. On the other hand, based on fuzzy constraint-basedproblem-solving, our approach enables an agent not only to systematically relax fuzzy constraints togenerate a proposal, but also to employ fuzzy similarity to select the alternative that is subjectto its acceptability by the opponents. This task of problem-solving is to reach an agreement thatbenefits all agents with a high satisfaction degree of fuzzy constraints, and move towards the dealmore quickly since their search focuses only on the feasible solution space. An application tomultilateral negotiation of a travel planning is provided to demonstrate the usefulness andeffectiveness of our framework.展开更多
文摘Conflicts between two or more parties arise for various reasons andperspectives. Thus, resolution of con-flicts frequently relies on some form of negotiation. Thispaper presents a general problem-solving framework for modeling multi-issue multilateral negotiationusing fuzzy constraints. Agent negotiation is formulated as a distributed fuzzy constraintsatisfaction problem (DFCSP). Fuzzy constrains are thus used to naturally represent each agent''sdesires involving imprecision and human conceptualization, particularly when lexical imprecision andsubjective matters are concerned. On the other hand, based on fuzzy constraint-basedproblem-solving, our approach enables an agent not only to systematically relax fuzzy constraints togenerate a proposal, but also to employ fuzzy similarity to select the alternative that is subjectto its acceptability by the opponents. This task of problem-solving is to reach an agreement thatbenefits all agents with a high satisfaction degree of fuzzy constraints, and move towards the dealmore quickly since their search focuses only on the feasible solution space. An application tomultilateral negotiation of a travel planning is provided to demonstrate the usefulness andeffectiveness of our framework.
