Agreements technologies - Towards sophisticated software agents in multi-agent environments

Abstract

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015. Agreements are one of vital social concepts that help human agents to facilitate interactions in social settings. Nowadays, a challenging interdisciplinary scientific research includes all the processes and mechanisms concerned in reaching agreements between different kinds of agents. Enhancing agents with “social” abilities is newest trend in application of agent technology and the implementation of wide range of multi-agent systems. Agreement Technologies bring a new flavor in implementation of more sophisticated autonomous software agents that mutually negotiate in order to come as much as close to win-win situation and to acceptable agreements. The goal of the paper is to present key concepts in this area and highlight influence of Agreement Technologies on development of more sophisticated multi-agent systems. Several interesting systems and environments from different domains are briefly presented.