US 8,412,535 B2Granted

Negotiation support systems and methods

AssigneeInstitute of Information Industry

InventorsJune-Ray Lin, Hung-Wen Tung

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Abstract

Systems for negotiation support. First and second negotiation agent modules respectively receive multiple first proposals, calculate preference scores (PSs) for each first proposal using utility models and select a portion of the first proposals as second proposals in descending order according to the calculated PSs therewith. The negotiation management module receives the second proposals from the first and second negotiation modules, and generates third proposals according to the received proposals. The first and second negotiation agent modules respectively receive the third proposals, calculate PSs for received proposals using utility models, and arrange the third proposals in descending order according to PSs therewith to generate voting results. The negotiation management module receives the voting results, and generates a final agreement according to the received voting results.

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Dependent claims

A system for negotiation support, comprising:

a first computer, comprising a first negotiation agent module receiving a plurality of first proposals, calculating a first preference score (PS) for each first proposal using a first utility model, selecting a portion of the first proposals as a plurality of second proposals in descending order according to the first PSs therewith, receiving a plurality of third proposals, calculating a second PS for each third proposal using the first utility model, and arranging the third proposals in descending order according to second PSs therewith to generate a first voting result;
a second computer, comprising a second negotiation agent module receiving the first proposals, calculating a third preference score (PS) for each first proposal using a second utility model, selecting a portion of the first proposals as a plurality of fourth proposals in descending order according to the third PSs therewith, receiving the third proposals, calculating a fourth PS for each third proposal using the second utility model, and arranging the third proposals in descending order according to the fourth PSs therewith to generate a second voting result;
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a negotiation server, comprising a negotiation management module receiving the second proposals from the first negotiation module and the fourth proposals from the second negotiation module, generating the third proposals according to the second proposals and the fourth proposals, receiving the first voting result from the first negotiation module and the second voting result from the second negotiation module, and generating a final agreement according to the first voting result and the second result.

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A method for negotiation support, loaded and executed by a processing unit, comprising:

the processing unit generating a plurality of first proposals;
the processing unit receiving a plurality of second proposals being a portion of the first proposals;
the processing unit receiving a plurality of third proposals being a portion of the first proposals;
the processing unit generating a plurality of fourth proposals according to the second proposals and the third proposals;
the processing unit receiving a first voting result corresponding to a portion of the fourth proposals;
the processing unit receiving a second voting result corresponding to a portion of the fourth proposals;
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the processing unit determining one of the fourth proposals as a final agreement according to the first voting result and the second voting result;
wherein:
the second proposals are determined by a first negotiation agent module;
the third proposals are determined by a second negotiation module;
the first negotiation agent module calculates a first preference score (PS) for each first proposal using a first utility model and selects a portion of the first proposals as the second proposals in descending order according to the first PSs therewith, and the second negotiation agent module calculates a second PS for each first proposal using a second utility model and selects a portion of the first proposals as the third proposals in descending order according to the second PSs therewith.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.