• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-20
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• 2009

Negotiation is a process of reaching an agreement on the terms of a transaction. such as price, quantity, for two or more parties. Negotiation tries to maximize the benefits for all parties concerned. instead of using human-based negotiation. the e-commerce environment provides such an environment as adopting automated negotiation. Thus. choosing agent technology is appropriate for an automatic electronic negotiation platform. since autonomous software agents strive for the best deal on behalf of the human participants. Negotiation agents need a clear-cut definition of negotiation models or strategies. In reality, most bargaining systems embody nearly one negotiation model. In this article. we present a mobile agent negotiation system with reusable negotiation strategies that allows agents to dynamically embody a user's favorite negotiation strategy which can be preinstalled as a component in the system. We develop a prototype system, which is fully implemented in compliance with FIPA specifications, and then. describe the benefits of using the system.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.329-342
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to identify the issues which how situational constraints of negotiation affect outcomes. To achieve the purpose of this research, a multiple regression model was set up to identify the relationships between situational constraints of negotiation and negotiation outcome on international trade contracts. To implement the study, empirical questionnaires were collected from Korean business men who have actually conducted international trade with foreign firms. Reliability analysis and factor analysis were used to assess the reliability and validity of research variables. and multiple regression analysis were used for testing the relationships between situational constraints of negotiation and negotiation outcome. From this study, following results were identified; i) situational constraints of negotiation effects on negotiation outcomes ii) arbitrary and continuous situations affect significantly positive on negotiation outcomes iii) submissive situations affect significantly negative effects on negotiation outcomes In conclusion, participant of negotiation and their managers try to promote negotiation situation toward to arbitrary and continuous situations if they have any availability.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2050-2077
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• 2015

One of the major issues in emerging cloud management system needs the efficient service level agreement negotiation framework, with an optimal negotiation strategy. Most researchers focus mainly on the atomic service negotiation model, with the assistance of the Agent Controller in the broker part to reduce the total negotiation time, and communication overhead to some extent. This research focuses mainly on composite service negotiation, to further minimize both the total negotiation time and communication overhead through the pre-request optimization of broker strategy. The main objective of this research work is to introduce an Automated Dynamic Service Level Agreement Negotiation Framework (ADSLANF), which consists of an Intelligent Third-party Broker for composite service negotiation between the consumer and the service provider. A broker consists of an Intelligent Third-party Broker Agent, Agent Controller and Additional Agent Controller for managing and controlling its negotiation strategy. The Intelligent third-party broker agent manages the composite service by assigning its atomic services to multiple Agent Controllers. Using the Additional Agent Controllers, the Agent Controllers manage the concurrent negotiation with multiple service providers. In this process, the total negotiation time value is reduced partially. Further, the negotiation strategy is optimized in two stages, viz., Classified Similarity Matching (CSM) approach, and the Truncated Negotiation Group Gale Shapely Stable Matching (TNGGSSM) approach, to minimize the communication overhead.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2005

Though studies on negotiations have actively been conducted in the field of e-Commerce so far, some problems have yet to be solved and many application fields of negotiation systems exist. Currently, many businesses shift from various fields to e-Commerce market, due to recent social changes and expansion of e-Commerce market; however, we need to develop the study of automated agents to resolve the issue of negotiation, which is an essential element in the e-Commerce, by minimizing human interference under the e-Commerce environment. In this study, we intend to propose a new negotiation protocol considering the negotiation alternatives through continuous negotiation rounds in relation to an automated negotiation issue whose participants are one to N (seller to buyers). We also present an agent-facilitated negotiation methodology by which negotiation alternative generation process is automated, in consideration of buyer's negotiation attributes and strategies in the negotiation system.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제16권4호
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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.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.341-349
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• 2006

본 논문은 인터넷을 이용한 채용이 보편화되어 지원자와 고용자의 채용 조건에 대한 협상이 요구되는 시점에서, 지원자와 고용자를 대신하는 협상 에이전트를 이용한 인터넷 채용 협상 시스템을 제안한다. 기존 협상 시스템이 다중 속성에 대하여 사용자의 선호도와 순차적 협상을 이용하는 것에 반하여, 제안하는 협상 시스템은 각 속성의 병렬적 협상을 수행한다. 각 속성에 대한 병렬적 협상은 단일 속성을 포함하는 다중 속성에 대한 협상을 가능하게 하며 각 속성에 대한 개별적인 협상을 통한 협상결과를 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 사용자의 선호도에 따른 가중치를 적용함으로써 보다 효율적인 협상을 제공한다는 것을 실험을 통하여 우수한 결과를 얻었다.

• 통상정보연구
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.363-390
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• 2009

This study investigates the role of private participation in FTA Negotiation in case of US, Mexico and Japan. We utilize Putnam(1988)'s two stage negotiation model, Schelling Conjecture and Principal-Agent(P-A) theory to understand the role of private sector in FTA Negotiation. Those theories are useful to understand the behavior and interaction of key players such as private sector, congress and government in FTA negotiation. Putnam(1988)'s two stage negotiation model divides the FTA negotiation process into two processes: the external negotiation with foreign country and domestic negotiation with domestic interest group. Principal-Agent(P-A) theory provides the theoretical foundation of Putnam's two stage negotiation model, which is that principal's interest is not identical to the interest of Agent. We showed that the private sector and congress play an important role in FTA negotiation in United States. In case of Mexico, the private sector and government occupy the dominant position in FTA negotiation. In particular, the cooperation of industry and government has been successfully established via COECE in Mexico. In contrast to these countries, the role of private participation in trade policy is relatively low in Japan and Korea.

• 한국지능정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지능정보시스템학회 2000년도 춘계정기학술대회 e-Business를 위한 지능형 정보기술 / 한국지능정보시스템학회
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• pp.207-216
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• 2000

Due to recent growing interest in autonomous software agents and their potential application in areas such as electronic commerce, the autonomous negotiation become more important. Evidence from both theoretical analysis and observations of human interactions suggests that if decision makers have prior information on opponents and furthermore learn the behaviors of other agents from interaction, the overall payoff would increase. We propose a new methodology for a strategy finding process using data mining in autonomous negotiation system ; ANSIA (Autonomous Negotiation System using Intelligent Agent). ANSIA is a strategy based negotiation system. The framework of ANSIA is composed of following component layers : 1) search agent layer, 2) data mining agent layer and 3) negotiation agent layer. In the data mining agent layer, that plays a key role as a system engine, extracts strategy from the historic negotiation is extracted by competitive learning in neural network. In negotiation agent layer, we propose the autonomous negotiation process model that enables to estimate the strategy of opponent and achieve interactive settlement of negotiation. ANISIA is motivated by providing a computational framework for negotiation and by defining a strategy finding model with an autonomous negotiation process.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.348-352
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• 2000

Intelligent agents represent parts and manufacturing resources, which cooperate, negotiate, and compete with each other. The negotiation between agents is in general based on the Contract-Net-Protocol. This paper describes a new approach to negotiation-based job shop scheduling. The proposed method includes multi-negotiation strategy as well as single-negotiation. A case study showing the comparison of various negotiation strategies is also given.

• 한국중재학회지:중재연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.265-290
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• 1999

All kinds of commerces are begun from the contract and the claims are frequently raised by the problem in the contracts. Therefore, the negotiation is very important to make a contract and resolve the claim. This article compared and analyzed the negotiation practice of Korean, American and Islam to strengthen the negotiation power of the Korean domestic companies and suggested the some guidelines when the Korean companies negotiate with the foreign companies. For the negotiator to make a effective negotiation with the foreigners and a make the negotiation performance, The negotiator has to prepare for the negotiation practice and strategy of the foreign countries. Secondly, the negotiator has to be accustomed to the foreign country and make the win-win strategy by giving the benefit to the foreign company as well as him. Especially, in the negotiation with American, it is very necessary that the negotiator persuade him logically by preparing the objective data and include the lawyer into the negotiation team. In the negotiation with Islam, making the personal relationship and, if possible, frequent contact with the person who has the responsibility in the contract is very important.