| Author | Siriwan Apisiridej |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. IM-99-14 |
| Subject(s) | Electronic commerce
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of
Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. IM-99-14 |
| Abstract | This study is about the paradigms of negotiation in the Electronic Commerce (EC), in
order to support existing business practices as well as for the new ones over the Internet. Our
work explicitly models negotiation as a multi-agent system that can handle multi-issue
negotiation and use Bayes rule to update belief as the underlying learning mechanism. Besides
considering the trends of counterparts' strategies by using Bayes rule, agents can adapt
learning strategies by considering their environment during a negotiation process via a
Blackboard, which is a globally accessible database-like structure. A hypothetical example of
Bank Loan Negotiation is considered to illustrate the negotiation process for determining the
acceptable amount of loan and interest rate. Production rules are used to represent knowledge
in the analysis and evaluation phase of negotiation. The simulation results show that the
learning strategy with Bayes rule yields better results than the conventional strategies. |
| Year | 1999 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. IM-99-14 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies (SAT) |
| Department | Department of Information and Communications Technologies (DICT) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Information Management (IM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Sadananda, R.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Batanov, Dentcho N. ;Yulu, Qi; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Institute of Technology Partial Scholarship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1999 |