Abstract

Automated negotiation offers new capability for buyers and sellers to efficiently trade goods and services in online markets. In high-dimensional real world negotiations, many agents may communicate with each other over multi-issue products. In this paper, we review soft-computing techniques used in e-negotiation. Although implementation of real world negotiations is very hard but using soft computing techniques can lead us to a suitable approximation in automated negotiation. Using a combination of soft computing techniques can decrease the complexity of high-dimensional negotiation.

Key words: Electronic marketplace, automated negotiation, soft computing, complexity.