@Article{henderson05a,
  author =	 {Peter Henderson and Stephen Crouch and Robert John
                  Walters and Qinglai Ni},
  title =	 {Effects of introducing survival behaviours into
                  automated negotiators specified in an environmental
                  and behavioural framework},
  journal =	 {The Journal of Systems and Software},
  year =	 2005,
  volume =	 76,
  pages =	 {65--76},
  abstract =	 {With the rise of distributed e-commerce in recent
                  years, demand for automated negotiation has
                  increased. In turn, this has engendered a demand for
                  ever more complex algorithms to conduct these
                  negotiations. As the complexity of these algorithms
                  increases, our ability to reason about and predict
                  their behaviour in an ever larger and more diverse
                  negotiation environment decreases. In addition, with
                  the proliferation of internet-based negotiation, any
                  algorithm also has to contend with potential
                  reliability issues in the underlying message-passing
                  infrastructure. These factors can create problems
                  for building these algorithms, which need to
                  incorporate methods for survival as well as
                  negotiation. This paper proposes a simple yet
                  effective framework for integrating survivability
                  into negotiators, so they are better able to
                  withstand imperfections in their environment. An
                  overview of this framework is given, with two
                  examples of how negotiation behaviour can be
                  specified within this framework. Results of an
                  experiment which is based on these negotiation
                  algorithms are provided. These results show how the
                  stability of a negotiation community is affected by
                  incorporating an example survival behaviour into
                  negotiators operating in an environment developed to
                  support this framework.},
  keywords =     {multiagent negotiation},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/henderson05a.pdf},
  doi = 	 {10.1016/j.jss.2004.06.024},
  cluster = 	 {7073177954438476540}
}