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AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsKazuma SHIMIZU, Satoshi MORINAGA, Shinji NAKADAI, Tomohito ANDO
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A negotiation apparatus capable of efficiently conducting appropriate negotiations is provided. A negotiation apparatus (1) includes a condition acquisition unit (2), a calculation unit (4), and an operation decision unit (6). The condition acquisition unit (2) acquires a demand condition including one or more elements regarding demand for a commodity or a service. The calculation unit (4) calculates a utility value of the acquired demand condition using a predetermined utility function based on resource information. The resource information indicates availability status of one or more resources required to provide the commodity or the like. The operation decision unit (6) decides a negotiation operation, which is an operation regarding a negotiation for providing the commodity or the like based on the calculated utility value.
A negotiation apparatus comprising:
A negotiation method comprising:
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the following steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.