Basic Strategy for Team Members Sample Clauses

Basic Strategy for Team Members. Since negotiations are time-bounded in our framework, we consider that team members have to perform some kind of concession if an agreement is to be found. For this purpose we have designed basic team members as agents whose demands are controlled by an individual and private concession strategy. More specifically, the concession strategy for a team member a ∈ A is based on time-based tactics sa(t) (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1998; ▇▇▇ et al., 2008). It estimates the utility demanded by a at time t by using the formula in Equation 5, where RUa is its reservation utility, T is the negotiation deadline, and βa is the concession speed, which determines how fast the agent’s demands are lowered towards RUa. Hence, agent a selects an unpredictable partial offer which is not forbidden inside the team (since it will be ignored by the team mediator) and whose utility allows him to achieve or surpass its current demands at time t. This way, the team member as- sures that if its proposed unpredictable partial offer is the winner of the ▇▇▇▇▇ voting process, it can reach its current demands. However, one should be aware that many unpredictable partial offers may fulfill Equation 7. Therefore, it is necessary to se- lect one of them as the proposed candidate. Being our basic team member, from the set of partial of- fers that fulfill Equation 7, a team member selects one of the candidates randomly. The second time that a team member interacts with the team mediator is for scoring unpredictable partial offers that have been proposed by team members. For scoring candidate partial offers in Team Member a 1. REQUEST unpredictable partial offer X a 't 't 2. INFORM 3. REQUEST ▇▇▇▇▇ on UPO 't { X 1 ,..., X M } 't 't 4. INFORM scorea 5. INFORM winner unpredictable partial offer X A 't 6. REQUEST value for issue j 7. INFORM a , j