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Intelligent agent with negotiation capability and method of negotiation therewith
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Inventors: Bigus, Joseph Phillip; Cragun, Brian John; Delp, Helen Roxlo;
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Primary Examiner: Hafiz; Tariq R.
Assistant Examiner: Kalinowski; Alexander
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P.
An intelligent agent and method of negotiating herewith incorporate a number of features, used alone or in combination, to enhance the productivity, security, efficiency and responsiveness of the agent in negotiations with other parties. One feature incorporates randomization of one or more aspects of an agent's behavior to disguise its negotiation strategy from other negotiating parties and thereby prevent such parties from gaining a negotiating advantage at the expense of the agent. Another features incorporates limiting unproductive negotiations by constraining one or more aspects of an agent's behavior based upon the behavior of a negotiating party and/or the duration of the transaction, and thereby making it more likely that unproductive negotiations will be terminated. An additional feature incorporates dynamic value determination to determine the desired value of a desired transaction by weighting and normalizing estimated values retrieved from a plurality of information sources. Moreover, a further features incorporates dynamic value determination which weights and normalizes the values of related transactions based upon the proximity of the related and desired transactions. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATED EMBODIMENTS Turning to the Drawing, wherein like parts are denoted by like numbers throughout the several views, FIG.
1 illustrates a networked computer system 10 for use with the illustrated embodiments of the invention.
System 10, which is representative of many networked data processing systems, generally includes one or more computer systems, e.
g.
, single-user computer systems 16, 18 and multi-user computer systems 20, 60, coupled through a network 15.
Multi-user computer system 20 typically includes one or more servers 25 to which one or more single-user computers 22 may be networked through a separate network 24.
Similarly, multi-user computer system 60 typically includes one or more servers 65 coupled to one or more single-user computer systems 62 through a network 64.
Network 15 may represent any type of networked interconnection, including but not limited to local-area, wide-area, wireless, and public networks (e.
g.
, the Internet).
Intelligent agents are computer programs which have been delegated a degree of autonomy but which are limited to operating within constraints defined by their client.
A subset of such agents which are capable of being passed between and operating in different applications or computer systems are referred to as mobile agents.
It is anticipated that agents consistent with the invention may originate in and be resident from time to time on any of the above-mentioned computer systems.
One possible distinction between the computer systems for the purposes of the invention may be whether each is a client or a remote system relative to a particular agent.
For example, FIG.
2 illustrates an embodiment of computer system 10 where multi-user computer system 20 is a client system, and multi-user computer system 60 is a remote system.
A client system will hereinafter refer to a computer system that provides an agent a certain level of security from manipulation by other parties when the agent is resident on the system.
The client system is also the computer system from which management of the agent is typically handled
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