论文标题
多边谈判中混合目标功能的谈判策略
A Negotiating Strategy for a Hybrid Goal Function in Multilateral Negotiation
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论文摘要
在各种多代理谈判环境中，谈判者的效用部分或完全取决于谈判者的实用程序（即社会福利）的总和。尽管在最近的工作中已经承认了对社会福利的有效谈判代理设计的需求，甚至是自动谈判代理人竞赛的类别，但迄今为止，很少有人提出设计。在本文中，我们介绍了对代理人Herbt+的广泛评估的设计原理和结果，这是一种旨在最大化个人和社会福利之间的线性权衡的谈判代理。我们的评估框架依赖于自动谈判代理竞赛（ANAC），并包括基于涉及63个代理商提交给这些竞赛的代理商的谈判，与2015 - 2018年间提交的前15名代理商进行了详尽的比较。我们发现，除了一些小例外，当社会福利在代理商的目标功能中发挥重要作用时，我们的代理商的表现优于所有其他经过测试的设计。
In various multi-agent negotiation settings, a negotiator's utility depends, either partially or fully, on the sum of negotiators' utilities (i.e., social welfare). While the need for effective negotiating-agent designs that take into account social welfare has been acknowledged in recent work, and even established as a category in automated negotiating agent competitions, very few designs have been proposed to date. In this paper, we present the design principles and results of an extensive evaluation of agent HerbT+, a negotiating agent aiming to maximize a linear tradeoff between individual and social welfare. Our evaluation framework relies on the automated negotiating agents competition (ANAC) and includes a thorough comparison of performance with the top 15 agents submitted between 2015-2018 based on negotiations involving 63 agents submitted to these competitions. We find that, except for a few minor exceptions, when social-welfare plays a substantial role in the agent's goal function, our agent outperforms all other tested designs.
