@Article{klein03b,
  author =	 {Mark Klein and Peyman Faratin and Hiroki Sayama and
                  Yaneer Bar-Yam},
  title =	 {Protocols for Negotiating Complex Contracts},
  journal =	 {{IEEE} Intelligent Systems},
  year =	 2003,
  volume =	 18,
  number =	 6,
  pages =	 {32--38},
  abstract =	 {Research to date on negotiation protocols has
                  focused almost exclusively on defining simple
                  contracts consisting of one or a few independent
                  issues and a relatively small number of possible
                  contracts. Many real-world contracts, in contrast,
                  are much more complex, consisting of multiple
                  interdependent issues and intractably large contract
                  spaces. The family of negotiation protocols we've
                  developed make substantial progress toward achieving
                  near-optimal outcomes for negotiations with binary
                  issue dependencies. We propose a simulatedannealing-
                  based approach, a refined version based on a
                  parity-maintaining annealing mediator, and an
                  unmediated version of the negotiation protocol.},
  keywords =     {multiagent negotiation},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/klein03b.pdf},
  googleid = 	 {Zc4APMDd8R8J:scholar.google.com/},
  doi = 	 {10.1109/MIS.2003.1249167},
  cluster = 	 {2301864702273179237}
}