| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intelligent agent for enhancing productivity security, efficiency and responsiveness in negotiations with other parties, and to provide a negotiating method which uses it. SOLUTION: By incorporating randomization of one or more aspects of an agent's behavior for disguising its negotiation strategy from other negotiating parties, to thereby prevent such parties from gaining negotiation superiority at the expense of the agent. Another feature incorporates limiting unproductive negotiations, by constraining one or more aspects of an agent's behavior, based on the behavior of a negotiating party and/or the duration of the transaction, and thereby constraining that unproductive negotiations be terminated. An additional feature incorporates dynamic value determination for determining the desired value of a desired transaction by weighting and normalizing estimated values retrieved from a plurality of information sources. Moreover, a feature is incorporated with dynamic value determination, which weights and normalizes the values of related transactions based on the degree of proximity of the related and desired transactions. |
