AAAI-99 Workshop
on
Negotiation: Settling conflicts and identifying opportunities
July 19, 1999
Orlando, Florida


SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS

8:30 Introductory Remarks (15 minutes)

SESSION I

8:45 Bradley J.Clement,
"Identifying and Resolving Conflicts among Agents with Hierarchical Plans"
9:10 Bikramjit Banerjee, Sandip Debnath and Sandip Sen,
"Using Bayesian Network to aid Negotiation among Agents"
9:35 Eugenio Oliviera, Jose Manuel Fonseca and Nick Jennings,
"Learning to be competitive in the Market"

10:00 Coffee Break (30 minutes)

SESSION II

10:30 Tim Menzies,
"Smaller, Faster Dialogues"

SESSION III

11:00 Panel Discussion: "Negotiation possibilities in E-commerce"
Moderator: Sandip Sen

12:15 LUNCH (120 minutes)

SESSION IV

2:15 P. Faratin, C. Sierra, N.R. Jennings and P. Buckle,
"Designing Responsive and Deliberative Automated Negotiators"
2:40 Tuomas Sandholm and Yunhong Zhou,
"Revenue Equivalence of Leveled Commitment Contracts"
3:05 Lyndon C. Lee,
"Designing Progressive MultiAgent Negotiations"
3:30 Michael P.Wellman and William E. Walsh,
"Distributed Quiescence Detection in Multiagent Negotiation"

4:00 Coffee Break (30 minutes)

SESSION V

4:30 Thomas Wagner, Jonathon Shaprio, Ping Xuan and Victor Lesser,
"Multi-Level Conflict in Multi-Agent Systems"
4:55 Sandip Sen and Anish Biswas,
"More than envy-free"

5:20 Concluding Remarks