• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.2 s.40
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• pp.341-349
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• 2006

These day, Internet Recruiting needs negotiation of recruiting items. So in this paper, Internet Recruiting Negotiation System(IRNS) proposes multilateral negotiation that substitutes applicants and employers. Previous NSS uses preference value of multi-attribute and sequential negotiation. But proposed IRNS uses parallel negotiation of multi-attribute. parallel negotiation supplies multi-attribute negotiation including single-attribute and results of parallel negotiation. This paper proposes effective negotiation using weight strategy of multi-attribute.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1-25
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• 2006

This research approached the negotiation problem from the seller's perspective in the make-to-order manufacturing industry in order to solve the multi-attribute automated negotiation problem. To this end, more than 'two negotiation attributes are defined and a preferred value of each negotiation alternative is calculated based on the entropy value of each attribute. And then, the best option is selected according to the utility function of each negotiator, a penalty of negotiation delay, and conviction of possibility of negotiation success. The suggested automated negotiation methods in this study can be employed for the development of advanced automated negotiation systems.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.308-316
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• 2004

This paper proposed mediator agent system that guarantees reciprocity to attendances in bilateral negotiations for electronic commerce that is different from regular commercial transactions. The optimal agreement was supposed to provide the total maximum profits and the minimum difference in profits of both attendances in negotiations. In the mediator agent system, mediator agent conducted the negotiations considering multi attributes of product and Multi Attribute Utility Theory(MAUT) was applied to evaluate the profits of buyer and seller. 1'he negotiation model in mediator agent system was transformed into linear programming according to the information of bargain for attendances in negotiations. In order to compare with mediator agent system under the same conditions of reciprocity, another negotiation agent system was implemented using trade-off mechanism that is an algorithm for agent interactions in negotiation. The negotiation agent system using trade-off mechanism did not guarantee the optimal agreement, whereas mediator agent system provided attendances in negotiations with optimal agreement rapidly in comparison with trade-off mechanism.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.3
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• pp.731-740
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• 2004

In this paper we propose a fast negotiation agent system that guarantees the reciprocity of the attendants in a bilateral negotiation on the e-commerce. The proposednegotiation agent system exploits the incremental learning method based on an artificial neural network in generating a counter-offer and is trained by the previous offer that has been rejected by the other party. During a negotiation, the software agents on behalf of a buyer and a seller negotiate each other by considering the multi-attributes of a product. The experimental results show that the proposed negotiation system achieves better agreements than other negotiation agent systems that are operated under the realistic and practical environment. Furthermore, the proposed system carries out negotiations about twenty times faster than the previous negotiation systems on the average.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.35-51
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• 2005

The wide spread of Internet and rapid development of e-commerce-related technology have brought sweeping changes on the traditional commercial transactions. Accordingly, many efforts to transform these transactions electronically under e-commerce environment have been carried out. As most transactions are usually made through negotiations, the function of automated negotiation is also required in the e-commerce environment. This paper aims to develop the method to generate and evaluate the multi-attribute negotiation proposals for automated negotiation systems. To this end the related articles are reviewed and the method dealing with e-negotiation strategy is suggested. In this method, the seller generates his or her own negotiation proposal and then evaluates the buyer's proposal based on SAW (Simple Additive Weighting Method), one of the MADM (Multi Attribute Decision Making) methods. To verify the suggested method, a case study is conducted in the order-based manufacturing environment.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.842-854
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• 2001

Today\`s first generation shopping agent is limited to comparing merchant offerings usually on price instead of their full range of attributes. Even in the full range comparison, there is not a good model which considers the overall features in the negotiation process. Therefore, the negotiation model needs to be extended to include negotiations over the more attributes. In this paper, we propose a negotiation model in the agent-mediated electronic commerce to negotiate over prices, product features, warranties and service policies based on utility theory and simple heuristics. We will describe a prototype agent-mediated electronic commerce framework called Pmart. This framework provides the software reuse and the extensibility based on the object-oriented technology. It is implemented on Windows-based platforms using Java and CORBA for the network transparency and platform independence.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.70-72
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• 2001

오늘날 대부분의 인터넷 경매 시스템은 단지 가격이라는 단일 속성만을 상품 거래의 절대 기준으로 삼고 있다. 이러한 경매 시스템은 단일 판매자와 다수의 구매자가 경매에 참여하므로 구매자에게 공정만 협상을 할 수 있는 기회를 제공하지 못한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 제품을 거래할 때 가격 외에도 배달시간, 보증기간 등 다중 속성을 가지고 협상을 수행할 수 있는 지능형 에이전트가 요구된다. 또한 다수의 판매자와 다수의 구매자가 협상을 진행할 수 있는 M:N 지능형 협상 에이전트도 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 Multi-Attribute Utility Theory(HAUT)를 이용하여 다중 속성을 가지고 거래를 하고 각각의 속성별로 거래 우선순위 가중치를 두어 협상하는 경매시스템을 제안한다. 그리고 다수의 판매자와 구매자가 협상을 하여 실제 협상과 차이가 많은 온라인 경매 협상 방법의 문제에 대한 해결방안도 제시하였다. 또한 사용자의 만족도를 높이기 위해 각 에이전트에게 최적의 상대 에이전트와 거래할 수 있는 예약시스템을 구현하였다. 제안한 모델은 약 85%의 거래 성사비율과 약 80%의 거래만족도를 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.37-39
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• 2003

구매자와 판매자를 대신하는 협상 에이전트는 전자상거래에서의 중요성에도 불구하고 아직까지 현실 생활에 적용될 수 있는 수준에 이르지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 Tip-off 정보를 이용해 상호 이익을 보장하며 협상 결과 및 협상 수행 시간을 동시에 고려한 다중 속성 협상 시스템을 제안한다. 제안 시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위한 기준 시스템으로써 양자간 모든 정보를 가지고 최적 협의를 도출할 수 있는 중개 에이전트 시스템을 구현하고 이를 본 논문에서 제안한 협상시스템과 비교하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 시스템은 상대방의 모든 정보를 완벽하게 알지 못하는 상황에서 최적의 협의에 가까운 결과를 도출하였고. 협상 수행시간에 있어서는 매우 빠른 성능을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.73-89
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• 2004

Since people have come to access more and more information about products with the proliferation of the Internet, more and more customer-to-customer e-marketplaces are being introduced with rapidly increasing transaction volumes. As the role of customer-to-customer electronic commerce has become increasingly regarded as vital to the economy, much research has delved into developing intelligent agent systems to efficiently support customer-to-customer electronic commerce. Most of this research, however, has focused only on supporting simple negotiation for the price of common goods along the time span. To expand the negotiation object to the differentiated goods, the customer must be allowed to negotiate over multi-at-tributes of the product besides the price, including the attributes related to the transaction activity itself, such as delivery time and payment method. To satisfy this requirement, we propose an agent marketplace for differentiated goods where the agent of a customer can negotiate not only the price but also the various attributes of the product and the transaction in order to achieve a better utility level for both buyer and seller. The formal protocol and the architecture issues to support the proposed e-marketplace and agents are also addressed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.1875-1878
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• 2003

에이전트를 이용하여 의견을 교환하여 타협안을 찾거나. 혹은 양자간 협상 시 양쪽의 에이전트는 각자의 이익을 최대로 하려고 한다. 하지만 한쪽이 많은 이득을 많이 취할 경우 상대방의 이익은 줄어들게 되고 손해를 본 사용자는 에이전트의 신뢰를 잃게 된다. 본 연구에서는 다중 사용자, 다중 속성, 비선형 협상 전략 환경에서 유틸리티 함수와 유전자 알고리즘을 이용하여 양쪽에게 균등한 이익이 돌아감과 동시에 최대의 이익이 되는 제안을 생성하는 중개 에이전트의 핵심 알고리즘을 구현하는 것이 논문의 목적이다.