ANNA: Acquisition for Networks of Negotiating Agents
(this project has ended)

This research will investigate and develop techniques by which software agents can acquire sufficient knowledge to negotiate effectively on behalf of their user in a range of electronic commerce scenarios. The research will exploit and extend work in the Knowledge Acquisition community in order to determine exactly what knowledge an agent needs to be endowed with to negotiate on behalf of its user, what techniques are appropriate for capturing this knowledge, and how the agent's performance can be evalauted against its users' expectations.

Homepage: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/anna_proposal.htm
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Group: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Theme: Agent Based Computing
Dates: 1st October 2001 to 1st October 2003

Partners

• Dr Chris Preist (HP Labs)
• Dr Mike Yearworth (HP Labs)

Funding

• Hewlett Packard Research Labs

Principal Investigators

• Professor Nicholas Jennings
• Professor Nigel R Shadbolt

Other Investigators

• xl