| Title: | A Framework For Mixed Initiative AgentBased Contracting |
| Author: | Bamshad Mobasher, John Collins, Maksim Tsvetovat, Corey Bilot, Rashmi Sundareswara, Tim Lee, Maria Gini |
| Abstract: | We describe an approach to agentbased contracting that combines the advantages of automated negotiation and evaluation of alternatives, with the realities of human decisionmaking and authority. The MAGNET architecture for multiagent automated contracting provides a secure marketbased infrastructure for complex negotiation, including an extensible ontology layer that defines the terms of discourse for interagent communication. A generalized evaluation capability in the agent has the ability to either support human decisionmaking, or to operate autonomously. We review the background from economics that leads us to the conclusion that for many realistic domains, such a mixedinitiative decisionmaking approach is preferable to a fullyautomated one. |
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