Enabling Negotiating Agents to Explore Very Large Outcome Spaces
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Abstract
This work presents BIDS (Bidding using Diversied Search), an algorithm that can be used by negotiating agents to search very large outcome spaces. BIDS provides a balance between being rapid, accurate, diverse, and scalable search, allowing agents to search spaces with as many as 10250 possible outcomes on very run-of-the-mill hardware. We
show that our algorithm can be used to respond to the three most com-
mon search queries employed by 87% of all agents from the Automated
Negotiating Agents Competition. Furthermore, we validate one of our
techniques by integrating it into negotiation platform GeniusWeb, to en-
able existing state-of-the-art agents (and future agents) to scale their use
to very large outcome spaces.