Tentative Agreement Determination in Automated Negotiation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing negotiation systems often break down without reaching a tentative agreement, requiring negotiators to restart negotiations from the beginning, leading to increased burden and inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
An agreement determination device and method that identifies a second proposal as more favorable than a base proposal, designating it as a tentative agreement, thereby reducing the burden of subsequent negotiations by allowing negotiators to continue from an advanced state.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If negotiations break down without reaching agreement, then the negotiation process must restart from the beginning, but this increases the burden and time consumption of subsequent negotiations
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by identifying and storing tentative agreement points during the negotiation process before final breakdown. The agreement determination device captures intermediate agreements that could serve as starting points for future negotiations, preventing complete restarts. This preliminary capture of agreement states reduces the time loss when negotiations need to be resumed.
Solution Approach 2:
The agreement determination device acts as an intermediary between negotiators, automatically identifying and recording tentative agreements. This intermediary function preserves negotiation progress by storing intermediate agreement states, which can be retrieved and used as starting points for subsequent negotiations, thereby reducing the burden of restarting from scratch.
2Ease of operation
If manual negotiations are restarted from scratch, then all negotiation points must be revisited, but this increases the burden on negotiators
Solution Approach 1:
The agreement determination device enables self-service by automatically identifying and recording tentative agreements without requiring manual intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously capturing negotiation progress points, reducing the operational burden on negotiators while maintaining simplicity in usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates copies of tentative agreement states for storage and future retrieval. By copying intermediate agreement points rather than requiring complete renegotiation, the system reduces operational burden while the automated copying mechanism manages the underlying complexity.
3Productivity
If automatic negotiation systems are used, then negotiation efficiency is improved, but the system may fail to reach tentative agreements leading to complete restarts
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by identifying and recording only tentative agreements rather than requiring complete final agreements. This partial capture of agreement states ensures that some progress is always preserved, improving reliability of progress retention while maintaining the efficiency of automatic negotiation processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The agreement determination device provides feedback by continuously monitoring and identifying tentative agreements during the negotiation process. This feedback mechanism ensures that progress is captured and stored, improving the reliability of tentative agreement achievement while allowing the automatic negotiation system to maintain its efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
The agreement determination device 1X mainly includes a proposal acquisition means 32X and an agreement determination means 33X. The proposal acquisition means 32X acquires a second proposal provided by a second negotiator as an alternative to a first proposal provided by a first negotiator who conducts a negotiation with the second negotiator. Upon determining that the second proposal is more favorable for the first negotiator than a base proposal on which the negotiation is based, the agreement determination means 33X determines that the second proposal is a tentative agreement proposal which is tentatively agreed between the first negotiator and the second negotiator.