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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering >> 2016, Volume 17, Issue 4 doi: 10.1631/FITEE.1500344

Intelligent negotiation model for ubiquitous group decision scenarios Project supported by the COMPETE Programme (No. POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043), the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Nos. UID/CEC/00319/2013, UID/EEA/00760/2013, and SFRH/BD/89697/2012), and the ECSEL JU (No. 662189) A preliminary version was presented at the 13th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, June 3–4, 2015, Spain

1. GECAD-Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Group, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto 4200-072, Portugal.2. ALGORITMI Centre, University of Minho, Guimar?es 4800-058, Portugal

Available online: 2016-04-20

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Abstract

Supporting group decision-making in ubiquitous contexts is a complex task that must deal with a large amount of factors to succeed. Here we propose an approach for an intelligent negotiation model to support the group decision-making process specifically designed for ubiquitous contexts. Our approach can be used by researchers that intend to include arguments, complex algorithms, and agents’ modeling in a negotiation model. It uses a social networking logic due to the type of communication employed by the agents and it intends to support the ubiquitous group decision-making process in a similar way to the real process, which simultaneously preserves the amount and quality of intelligence generated in face-to-face meetings. We propose a new look into this problem by considering and defining strategies to deal with important points such as the type of attributes in the multicriterion problems, agents’ reasoning, and intelligent dialogues.

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