Tasks for agent-based negotiation teams: Analysis, review, and challenges

Abstract

An agent based negotiation team is a group of interdependent agents that join together as asingle negotiation party due to their shared interests in the negotiation at hand.The reasons to employ an agent-based negotiation team may vary: (i) more computation and parallelization capabilities; (ii) unite agents with different expertise and skills whose joint work makes it possible tot ackle complex negotiation domains; (iii) the necessity to represent differents takeholders or different preference sin the sameparty(e.g.,organizations,countries,andmarriedcouple).The topic of agent-based negotiation teams has been recently introduced in multi-agent research.Therefore,it is necessary to identify good practices, challenges,and related research that may help in advancing the state-of-the-art in agent-based negotiation teams. For that reason,in this article we review the tasks to be carried out by agent-based negotiation teams. Each task is analyzed and related with current advances in different research areas. The analysis aims to identify special challenges that may arise due to the particularities of agent-based negotiation teams.