Tasks for agent-based negotiation teams: Analysis, review, and challenges

TL;DR

This paper reviews the tasks, challenges, and recent advances in agent-based negotiation teams, highlighting their unique complexities and the need for further research to improve multi-agent negotiation strategies.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of tasks, challenges, and research directions for agent-based negotiation teams, emphasizing their unique features and complexities.

Findings

Identification of key tasks in agent-based negotiation teams

Analysis of challenges specific to agent-based negotiation teams

Overview of recent research advances in the field

Abstract

An agent-based negotiation team is a group of interdependent agents that join together as a single negotiation party due to their shared interests in the negotiation at hand. The reasons to employ an agent-based negotiation team may vary: (i) more computation and parallelization capabilities, (ii) unite agents with different expertise and skills whose joint work makes it possible to tackle complex negotiation domains, (iii) the necessity to represent different stakeholders or different preferences in the same party (e.g., organizations, countries, and married couple). The topic of agent-based negotiation teams has been recently introduced in multi-agent research. Therefore, it is necessary to identify good practices, challenges, and related research that may help in advancing the state-of-the-art in agent-based negotiation teams. For that reason, in this article we review the tasks to be carried out by agent-based negotiation teams. Each task is analyzed and related with current advances in different research areas. The analysis aims to identify special challenges that may arise due to the particularities of agent-based negotiation teams.