[2F1-E-3] Agents: interaction and decision

[2F1-E-3-03] An Automated Negotiating Agent that Searches the Bids around Nash Bargaining Solution to Obtain High Joint Utilities

Shan Liu¹, 〇Ahmed Moustafa¹, Takayuki Ito¹ (1. Nagoya Institute of Technology)

Keywords:Automated negotiation agent, Nash bargaining solution

The International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) and the Pacific Rim International Automated Negotiation Agents Competition (PRIANAC) are being held annually in order to bring together the researchers from the multi-agent automated negotiation community. In this paper, we present a negotiating agent that is capable of searching the suitable bids that obtain high joint utility values near Nash bargaining solution by using a novel bid searching strategy. The proposed agent has participated in both competitions and finished in second place in the social welfare category in ANAC 2018 and in first place in the social welfare category in PRIANAC 2018.