Practical Negotiation for Electronic Commerce

Date:

1998-2001

Themes:

Agent Based Computing, E-Business Technologies

Funding:

EPSRC

This EPSRC funded collaborative project aims to apply game theoretic techniques to the design of negotiation algorithms for use by autonomous software agents in electronic commerce. The other partner is the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE).

Primary investigator

• Nick Jennings

Secondary investigators

• Ken Binmore (ELSE UCL)
• Nir Vulkan (ELSE UCL)
• Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)
• Shaheen Fatime (University of Liverpool)

Partner

• Economic Learning and Social Evolution

Associated research group

• Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group