A Negotiation Protocol for Meeting Scheduling Agent

In multi-agent systems, automatic negotiation is one of the main ongoing research issues. Over the last two decades, many attempts have been made to handle naturally distributed agreement problems via automatic negotiation.

These naturally distributed problems are easy to understand for their simplicity, but are hard to handle automatically. In order to reach an agreement using automatic negotiation, there is a need for a structured negotiation protocol. In this paper, we propose an agent negotiation protocol for meeting scheduling, one of the prominent naturally distributed problem.