A Study of a Dynamical Negotiation Architecture for Multi-Agent Systems

Abstract

We discuss about problems which occur during the negotiation process of multi-agent systems (MASs). In the MASs, agents may have different skills and expertise to solve problems. The negotiation process begins when conflicts occur during the cooperation of agents. We propose an approach for choosing a solution among different solutions provided by different agents. Our approach uses a hierarchy to represent the reason and its weight associated to it. This paper presents solving the problems of negotiation in MASs by using dynamic negotiation architecture. There are two weights proposed in this paper. They are the task weight and the property weight. These two weights help us make decision about taking a solution from the conflict solutions. A task hierarchy and a property hierarchy are used for the calculation of these two weights.