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  • Bo An, Victor Lesser, Kwang Mong Sim. Strategic agents for multi-resource negotiation. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, to appear.

  • Bo An, Victor Lesser, David Irwin, Michael Zink. Automated negotiation with decommitment for dynamic resource allocation in cloud computing. Proc. of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'10), pp.981-988, May 2010.

  • Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor Lesser. Searching for pure strategy equilibria in bilateral bargaining with one-sided uncertainty. Proc. of the 9th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'10), pp.1607-1608, May 2010.

  • Bo An, Victor Lesser. Characterizing contract-based multi-agent resource allocation in networks. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 575-586, June 2010.

    • Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor Lesser. Bilateral bargaining with one-sided two-type uncertainty. Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 09), Sep. 2009.

    Bo An, Nicola Gatti, Victor Lesser. Extending alternating-offers bargaining in one-to-many and many-to-many settings. Proc. of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 09), Sep. 2009.

    Kwang Mong Sim, Bo An. Evolving best-response strategies for market-driven agents using aggregative fitness GA. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 284-298, May 2009.

    Bo An, Fred Douglis, Fan Ye. Heuristics for negotiation schedules in multi-plan optimization. Proc. of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 08), pp.551-558, 2008.

    Bo An, Victor Lesser, Kwang Mong Sim. Decommitment in multi-resource negotiation. Proc. of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 08), pp.1553-1556, 2008.

    Michael Krainin, Bo An, Victor Lesser. An application of automated negotiation to distributed task allocation. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007), pp.138-145, 2007.

    Bo An, Zhiqi Shen, Chunyan Miao, Daijie Cheng. Algorithms for transitive dependence based coalition formation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 234-245, Aug. 2007.

    Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen. Decision making of negotiation agents using Markov Chains. Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 5-23, 2008.

    Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Victor Lesser. Evolving the best-response strategy to decide when to make a proposal. Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp.1035-1042, 2007.

    Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen. Market based resource allocation with incomplete information. Proc. of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07), pp.1193-1198, 2007.

    Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Lianggui Tang, Shuangqing Li, Daijie Cheng. Continuous time negotiation mechanism for software agents. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 1261-1272, Dec. 2006.

    Bo An, Kwang Mong Sim, Lianggui Tang, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen, Daijie Cheng. Negotiation agents’ decision making using Markov chains, Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations (AAMAS’ 06), pp.1-18, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

    Bo An, Zhiqi Shen, Chunyan Miao, Lianggui Tang, Daijie Cheng. Fuzzy constraint based negotiation under time pressure, Proc. of the 4th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics, Aug 2006.

    Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Yuan Miao, Daijie Cheng. Transitive dependence based formation of virtual organizations in service-oriented grid, Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, pp.375-380, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

    Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Daijie Cheng. A coalition formation framework based on transitive dependence. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E88-D, No.12, pp.2672-2680, Dec. 2005.

    Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Lianggui Tang, Shuangqing Li, Daijie Cheng. Toward transitive dependence in MAS, Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL’05), pp.486-493, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

    Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Lianggui Tang, Shuangqing Li, Daijie Cheng. A transitive dependence based social reasoning mechanism for coalition formation, Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL’05), pp.507-514, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

    Bo An, Lianggui Tang, Shuangqing Li, Daijie Cheng. A negotiation strategy based on uncompromising degree, Proc. of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on intelligent agent technology (IAT’04), IEEE Press, Sep. 2004.

    Bo An, Shuangqing Li, Lianggui Tang, Daijie Cheng. An e-commerce bidding model based on BP neural networks (in Chinese), Journal of Computer Engineering, no.17, pp.146-152, Jan. 2005.

    Bo An, Lianggui Tang, Shuangqing Li, Daijie Cheng. A negotiation model based on bayesian leaning (in Chinese), Journal of Computer Science, vol. 32, no.1, pp.157-159, Jan. 2005.

    Bo An, Lianggui Tang, Shuangqing Li, Daijie Cheng. An e-commerce bidding model (in Chinese), Journal of Computer Engineering and Application, no. 40, pp. 225-229, Dec. 2004.

    Chunyan Miao, Jianshu Weng, Angela Goh, Zhiqi Shen, Bo An. Use of Fuzzy Cognitive Map in dynamic negotiation for Grid services, Multiagent and Grid Systems, Vol.2, No.2, pp.101-114, 2006.

    Lianggui Tang, Hu Yang, Bo An, Daijie Cheng. A Multi-Agent reinforcement learning algorithm based on Neural Networks, Proc. of the International Conference on Sensing, Computing and Automation, 2006.

     

     

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