Cooperative negotiation in a multi-agent system for real-time load balancing of a mobile cellular network

Bigham, John; Du, Lin

doi:10.1145/860575.860666

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“…Conversely, negotiation strategies are usually designed to satisfy one of the optimality criteria mentioned above. These two issues -the definition of an appropriate protocol for cooperative negotiations and the development of negotiation strategies to produce cooperative agreements -have not yet been completely and satisfactorily addressed in literature, where rather ad hoc solutions have been developed for each specific case [6,17].…”

Section: Cooperative Negotiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…what are the constraints under which a negotiation is stable? ), the real-time convergence to an agreement [6,28] (do the agents converge to an agreement within a temporal deadline? ), and the adaptation of the negotiation to the changes in the context (for example, can the negotiation mechanism adapt to bandwidth modifications?).…”

Section: Cooperative Negotiation For Controlling Complex Systemsmentioning

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“…The control actions influence the system's behavior in order to reach the desired effect. Multiagent systems provide an effective technique to tackle this task: cooperative negotiation [6,28]. Indeed, controlling complex systems can be viewed as a decentralized multiobjective optimization problem [3] that can be solved by cooperative negotiation [8], where the control actions are produced as the agreement between negotiating agents.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Notwithstanding its promising role to control complex systems, multiagent cooperative negotiation lacks a satisfactory and comprehensive theory. Some crucial questions are still open: the stability of the negotiation [17], its optimality [10,21,22], its real-time convergence [6,28], and its adaptation both to different applications and to changing conditions in a given application.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Classic techniques for stability analysis [33] can be hardly applied to open systems with high level of decentralization and a potentially large number of agents. The stability techniques proposed in multiagent literature are rather ad hoc and do not always provide formal results [6,28]. Our proposal is instead based on a framework to develop stable cooperative negotiations that is formal and widely applicable, also to reconfigurable open multiagent systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A formal framework for connective stability of highly decentralized cooperative negotiations

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Gatti

2007

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Multiagent cooperative negotiation is a promising technique for modeling and controlling complex systems. Effective and flexible cooperative negotiations are especially useful for open complex systems characterized by high decentralization (which implies a low amount of exchanged information) and by dynamic connection and disconnection of agents. Applications include ad hoc network management, vehicle formation, and physiological model combination. To obtain an effective control action, the stability of the negotiation, namely the guarantee that an agreement will be eventually reached, is of paramount importance. However, the techniques usually employed for assessing the stability of a negotiation can be hardly applied in open scenarios. In this paper, whose nature is mainly theoretical, we make a first attempt towards engineering stable cooperative negotiations proposing a framework for their analysis and design. Specifically, we present a formal protocol for cooperative negotiations between a number of agents and we propose a criterion for negotiation stability based on the concept of connective stability. This is a form of stability that accounts for the effects of structural changes on the composition of a system and that appears very suitable for multiagent cooperative negotiations. To show its possible uses, we apply our framework for connective stability to some negotiations taken from literature.

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Section: Cooperative Negotiationmentioning

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Section: Cooperative Negotiation For Controlling Complex Systemsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integrating Knowledge Through Cooperative Negotiation – A Case Study in Bioinformatics

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2005

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A Cooperative Approach for Composite Ontology Mapping

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Moraes

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Journal on Data Semantics X

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Abstract. This paper proposes a cooperative approach for composite ontology mapping. We first present an extended classification of automated ontology matching and propose an automatic composite solution for the matching problem based on cooperation. In our proposal, agents apply individual mapping algorithms and cooperate in order to change their individual results. We assume that the approaches are complementary to each other and their combination produces better results than the individual ones. Next, we compare our model with three state of the art matching systems. The results are promising specially for what concerns precision and recall. Finally, we propose an argumentation formalism as an extension of our initial model. We compare our argumentation model with the matching systems, showing improvements on the results.

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Cooperative negotiation in a multi-agent system for real-time load balancing of a mobile cellular network

Cited by 28 publications

References 10 publications

A formal framework for connective stability of highly decentralized cooperative negotiations

A formal framework for connective stability of highly decentralized cooperative negotiations

Integrating Knowledge Through Cooperative Negotiation – A Case Study in Bioinformatics

A Cooperative Approach for Composite Ontology Mapping

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