Selected Papers on Automated Negotiation & Bargaining Theory

Journal Papers (18 in IEEE Transactions and 4 in ACM journals out of a total of 40)

1. K. M. Sim. A Strongly Group Strategyproof and Shill Resistant Bargaining Mechanism for Fog Resource Pricing.  Dynamic Games and Applications (2024), Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13235-023-00550-7  Click here for a view-only version of this paper provided by Springer Nature SharedIT link.  

2. K. M. Sim.  An Incentive-Compatible and Computationally Efficient Fog Bargaining Mechanism. Computational Economics Volume 62, issue 4, December (2023), pages 1883 - 1918. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-022-10324-9   Click here for a view-only version of this paper provided by Springer Nature SharedIT link. 

3. K. M. Sim. Cooperative and Parallel Fog Discovery and Pareto Optimal Fog Commerce Bargaining. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1112 - 1121, August, 2022.  Click here to download preprint.

4. J. Gwak and K. M. Sim. An Augmented EDA with Dynamic Diversity Control and Local Neighborhood Search for Coevolution of Optimal Negotiation Strategies. Applied Intelligence Journal (featured in Science Watch as a Rising Star Journal), June 2013, Volume 38, Issue 4, pp. 600-619, Springer.

5. K. M. Sim. Complex and Concurrent Negotiations for Multiple Interrelated e-Markets. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, VOL. 43, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2013, pp. 230-245.  

6. K. M. Sim. Evolving Fuzzy Rules for Relaxed-criteria Negotiation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22), Vol. 38, No. 6, December 2008 , pp.1486-1500. 

7. K. M. Sim and B. Shi. Concurrent Negotiation and Coordination for Grid Resource Co-allocation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22), Vol. 40, No. 2, Jun 2010, pp. 753-766.

8. K. M. Sim, Y. Guo and B. Shi. BLGAN: Bayesian Learning and Genetic Algorithm for Supporting Negotiation with Incomplete Information. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22), Vol. 39, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 198-211.

9. K. M. Sim. G-Commerce, Market-driven G-Negotiation Agents and Grid Resource Management IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22), Vol. 36, No. 6, December 2006 , pp.1381-1394.

10. S. Son and K. M. Sim. A Price-Timeslot Negotiation for Cloud Service Reservation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22),  Vol. 42, No. 3, June 2012, pp. 713-728.

11. B. An, K. M. Sim et al. Continuous Time Negotiation Mechanism for Software Agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22), Vol. 36, No. 6, December 2006, pp. 1261-1272.

12. K. M. Sim. Equilibria, Prudent Compromises, and the “Waiting” Game. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22), Vol. 35, No. 4, Aug. 2005, pp. 712-724.

13. K. M. Sim and S.Y. Wang. Flexible Negotiation Agent with Relaxed Decision Rules. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22), Vol. 34, No. 3., pp. 1602- 1608, Jun., 2004.

14. K. M. Sim and C.Y. Choi. Agents that React to Changing Market Situations. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Impact factor: 6.22), Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 188-201, April 2003.

15. K.T. Seow, K. M. Sim et al. A BDI Assignment Protocol with New Cooperative-Concession Strategies. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 38,  No. 3, May 2008, pp. 688-697.

16. K. M. Sim and E. Wong. Toward Market-driven Agents for Electronic Auction. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 31, No.6, pp. 474-484, Nov. 2001.

17.  K. M. Sim. Grid Resource Negotiation: Survey and New Directions. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 40, No. 3, May 2010, pp. 245 - 257. 

18. K. M. Sim and B. An. Evolving Best-Response Strategies for Market-Driven Agents Using Aggregative Fitness GA. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 39, No. 3, May 2009, pp. 284-298.  

19. K.T. Seow, K. M. Sim, and Y.C. Kwek. Coalition Formation for Resource Co-allocation Using BDI Assignment Agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 37, No. 4, July, 2007, pp. 682-693.

20. K. M. Sim. Guest Editorial:Special Issue on Game-theoretic Analysis and Stochastic Simulation of Negotiation Agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 36, No. 1, Feb. 2006.

21. K.T. Seow and K. M. Sim. Decentralized Assignment Reasoning Using Collaborative Local Mediation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 11, November 2006, pp. 1576-1580.

22. K. M. Sim. Relaxed-criteria G-negotiation for Grid Resource Co-allocation: Position paper. ACM SIGeCOM Exchanges, Vol. 6, No. 2, December 2006/ January 2007.

23. K. M. Sim. A Survey of Bargaining Models for Grid Resource Allocation. ACM SIGeCOM: E-commerce Exchanges, Vol. 5, No. 5, December, 2005.

24. K. M. Sim. From Market-driven Agents to Market-Oriented Grids. ACM SIGeCOM: E-commerce Exchanges, Vol. 5, No. 2, November 2004, pp. 45–53.

25. K. M. Sim. Equilibrium Analysis of Market-driven Agents. ACM SIGECOM: E-commerce Exchanges, vol. 4.2, Summer, 2003, pp. 32-40.

26. B. An, V. R. Lesser, and K. M. Sim. Strategic Agents for Multi-Resource Negotiation. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Springer. Vol: 23, No. 1, July 2011, pp. 114 - 153.

27. K.M. Sim. Negotiation Agents that Make Prudent Compromises and are Slightly Flexible in Reaching Consensus. In Computational Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 4, Nov. 2004, pp. 643-662.

28. K. M. Sim. A Market-driven Model for Designing Negotiation Agents. In Computational Intelligence, Special issue in Agent Technology for E-commerce, vol. 18, no. 4, 2002.

29. J. Gwak, K.M. Sim, M. Jeon. Novel dynamic diversity controlling EAs for coevolving optimal negotiation strategies.  Information Sciences, Vol. 273, July 2014, pp. 1-32.

30. K.T. Seow and K. M. Sim. Collaborative assignment using belief-desire-intention agent modeling and negotiation with speedup strategies. Information Sciences, Volume 178, Issue 4  (February, 2008), pp.  1110-1132.

31. S. Ji, C. Zhang, K. M. Sim, and H.F. Leung. A one-shot bargaining strategy for dealing with multifarious opponents. Applied Intelligence Journal (featured in Science Watch as a Rising Star Journal), June 2014, Vol. 40, Issue 4, pp. 557-574.

32. J. Gwak and K. M. Sim. A novel method for coevolving PS-optimizing negotiation strategies using improved diversity controlling EDAs.  Applied Intelligence Journal (featured in Science Watch as a Rising Star Journal), April 2013, Volume 38, Issue 3, pp. 384-417, Springer.

33. S. Ji, H. Leung, and K. M. Sim et al. An adaptive prediction-regret driven strategy for one-shot bilateral bargaining software agents. Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 42, No. 1, January 2015, Pages 411–425, Elsevier.

34. F. Ren, M. Zhang and K. M. Sim. Adaptive Conceding Strategies for Automated Trading Agents in Dynamic, Open Markets. Decision Support Systems, Vol. 46, No. 3, February 2009, pp.704-716.

35. K. M. Sim. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Learning Approaches for Negotiation Agents and Automated Negotiation. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 21, Jan. 2006.

36. S. Son and K. M. Sim. Adaptive and similarity-based tradeoff algorithms in a price-timeslot-QoS negotiation system to establish cloud SLAs. Information Systems Frontiers Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 565-589, 2015, Springer.

37. K.M. Sim, M. Zhang & T. Ito. Guest Editorial: Special issue on negotiation mechanisms for multiagent and Grid resource management system. Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal (IOS Press), vol. 1, 2008, pp. 1-4. 

38. B. An and K. M. Sim et al. Decision Making of Negotiation Agents Using Markov Chains. Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal, vol. 1, 2008, pp. 5-24.

39. Q. Bai, M. Zhang and K. M. Sim. “Flexible Negotiation Modeling by Using Coloured Petri Nets”,  Journal of Information Technology Research, Vol. 2, No. 3, April 2009, pp. 1-16.

40. K. M. Sim and K. F. Ng. Relaxed-criteria Negotiation for G-commerce. (Invited Paper) International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 2, July 2007, pp. 105-117.

Book Chapters

41. J. Gwak and K. M. Sim. Co-evolving Negotiation Strategies for P-S-Optimizing Agents. Intelligent Automation and Computer Engineering. Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, 2010, pp. 119-133.

42. K. M. Sim and Benyun Shi. Adaptive Commitment Management Strategy Profiles for Concurrent Negotiations. In T. Ito et al. (Eds). Agent-based Complex and  Autonomous Negotiations, Springer, 2009.

43. B. An, K.M. Sim et al. Negotiation Agents’ Decision Making Using Markov Chains. In T. Ito et al. (Eds). Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems, Springer, 2008, pp. 3-24.

Conference Papers

44. K. M. Sim. Towards a Unifying Multilateral Cloud Negotiation Strategy. Proc. International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2013 Vol. I, IMECS 2013, March 13 - 15, 2013, Hong Kong. Best Paper Award.

45. B. Shi and K. M. Sim. Coordination and Concurrent Negotiation for Multiple Web Services Procurement. In Proceedings of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2009, Hong Kong. Certificate of Merit.

46. M. Kampouridis and K.M. Sim. A GP approach for Price-Speed Optimizing Negotiation.  In Proc. 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, June 20-23, 2013, Cancun, Mexico.

47. X. Luo and K. M. Sim. Reward and  Penalty Functions in Negotiation. Proc. The Sixth International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations (ACAN2013) held in conjunction with Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 6, 2013 - May 10, 2013.

48. X. Luo, K. M. Sim, and M. He.  A Knowledge Based System of Principled Negotiation for Complex Business Contract. Proc. The 2013 International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, August 10-12, 2013, Dalian, China.

49. J. Zhan, X. Luo, and K. M. Sim. A Fuzzy Logic Based Model of a Bargaining Game. Proc. The 2013 International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, August 10-12, 2013, Dalian, China.

50. S. Son and K. M. Sim. One-to-many  Price Time-Slot Negotiation Mechanism for a Cloud Resource Co-allocation to Multiple Providers. In Proc. Int. Conf. Applied and Theoretical Information Systems Research, Feb. 10-12, 2012, Taipei, Taiwan.

51. S. Son and K. M. Sim. A negotiation mechanism that facilitates the Price-Timeslot-QoS negotiation for establishing SLAs of Cloud Service Reservation. Proceedings of The Third International Conference on the Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2011), Macau, July 11-13, 2011, pp. 432-446.

52. J. Gwak and K. M. Sim. Bayesian Learning based Negotiation Agents for Supporting Negotiation with Incomplete Information. In Proceedings of The 2011 IAENG International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, March 16-18, Hong Kong, pp. 163-168.

53. S. Son and K. M. Sim. An Adaptive Tradeoff Algorithm for Multi-issue SLA Negotiation. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, December 13-15, 2010, Jeju Island, Korea.

54. D. Yoo and K. M. Sim. A Multilateral Negotiation Model for Cloud Service Market. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, December 13-15, 2010, Jeju Island, Korea.

55. J. Gwak and K. M. Sim. Novel Dynamic Diversity Controlling EDA and Its Application to Automated Bilateral Negotiation. Proceedings of the IEEE Fifth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2010), September 23 - 26, 2010, Changsha, China.  

56. J. Gwak and  K. M. Sim. Coevolving Near-Optimal Strategies for Negotiation with Incomplete Information using a Diversity Controlling GA. Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Automation and Logistics. August 16-20, 2010, Hong Kong and Macau.

57. J. Gwak,  K. M. Sim & M. Zhang. Finding Near-Optimal Strategies for Negotiation Agents with Incomplete Information using a Diversity Controlling EDA. Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Supply Chain Management and Information Systems, 6th - 8th October 2010, Hong Kong, China.

58. K. M. Sim. Complex and Concurrent Negotiations for Multiple Interrelated e-Markets (Position Paper). Proceedings of the Group Decision & Negotiation 2010 Conference in Delft, The Netherlands, pp.253-264.

59. K. M. Sim. Complex and Concurrent Negotiations in Supply Chain Management (Position Paper). Proceedings of The 4th International Conference of Operations and Supply Chain Management (ICOSCM 2010), 2010, Hong Kong.

60. K. M. Sim. Towards Complex Negotiation for Cloud Economy. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2010), LNCS 6104, pp. 395–406, 2010. May 10-13, Hualian, Taiwan.

61. S. Son and K. M. Sim. A Multi-issue Negotiation Mechanism for Cloud Service Reservation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization 2010, May 17-18, Singapore, pp. 123-130.

62. J. Gwak and K. M. Sim. Co-evolving Best Response Strategies for P-S-Optimizing Negotiation using Evolutionary Algorithms. Proceedings of The 2010 IAENG International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, March 17-19, Hong Kong, pp.13-18.

63. K. M. Sim. Unconventional Negotiation: Survey and New Directions. In proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB 2009), November 30 to December 4, Macau, pp. 901-907.

64. S. Son and K. M. Sim. Relaxed Time Slot Negotiation for Grid Resource Allocation. In proceedings of The 2009 Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, December 10 to 12, 2009, Korea.

65. B. An, V. Lesser and K. M. Sim. Decommitment in Multi-resource Negotiation. In Proceedings of the seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2008, Estoril Portugal.

66. K. M. Sim, and B. Shi, Adaptive Commitment Management Strategy Profiles for Concurrent Negotiations, In Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations (ACAN), 2008, Estoril Portugal, held in conjunction with 7th Int. Conf. on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (AAMAS), pages 16-23.

67. K. M. Sim. An Evolutionary Approach for P-S-Optimizing Negotiation. In Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2008, Hong Kong.

68. B. Shi and K. M. Sim. A Regression-based Coordination for Concurrent Negotiation. IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Commerce 2008, Guangzhou, China, pp. 699-703.

69. B. An, K. M. Sim and V. Lesser. Evolving the Best-response Strategy to Decide When to Make a Proposal. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007, Singapore, pp. 1035-1042.

70. K. M. Sim, Y. Guo and B. Shi. Agents that Negotiate Optimally and Rapidly. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007, Singapore, pp. 1007-1014.

71. B. Shi and K. M. Sim. "A Concurrent G-Negotiation Mechanism for Grid Resource Co-allocation". In proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Int. Workshop on Service-Oriented SystemEngineering held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on E-business Engineering from October 24-26, 2007, Hong Kong, pp. 532-535.

72. J. Li, K. M. Sim and R. Yahyapour. Negotiation Strategies Considering Opportunity Functions for Grid Scheduling. In proceedings of 13th International European Conference onParallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2007) Renee, France, Aug 28-Aug 31, 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4641, pp. 447-456, 2007.

73. F. Ren, K. M. Sim and M. Zhang. Marked-Driven Agents with Uncertain Dynamic Outside Options. In Proceedings of the sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2007, Hawaii, USA.

74. K. M. Sim and K. F. Ng. A Relaxed-Criteria Bargaining Protocol for Grid Resource Management. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 2006, Singapore.

75. K. M. Sim and K. F. Ng. Relaxed-criteria negotiation for G-commerce. In Proceedings of the Business Agents and the Semantic Web Workshop, 2006 held in conjunction with the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Hokadate, Japan.

76. B. An and K. M. Sim et al. Negotiation Agents’ Decision Making Using Markov Chains. In Proceedings of the 2006 Workshop on Rational, Robust, and Secure Negotiations in Multi-Agent Systems, held in conjunction with the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Hokadate, Japan.

77. K. M. Sim. From Market-driven e-Negotiation to Market-driven G-Negotiation. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on E-Technology, E-Commerce and E-Service, Hong Kong, March, 2005.

78. Y. Ishihara, R. Huang, K. M. Sim. Learning Opponent`s Eagerness with Bayesian Updating Rule in a Market-driven Negotiation Model. In Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Taipei, ROC, Apr. 2005.

79. K. M. Sim and S.Y. Wang. Designing Flexible Negotiation Agent with Relaxed Decision Rules. In Proc. of the 2003 IEEE/WIC Int. Conf. on Intelligent Agent Tech. Pages 282-289.

80. K. M. Sim. Market-driven Negotiation Agents with Flexible Zone of Concession.  In Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2003, Singapore.

81. H. Ouchiyama, R. Huang, J. Ma, and K.M. Sim. An Experience based Evolutionary Negotiation Model. In Proceedings of 5th Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, pages 212-217, Xi’an, China, Sep. 2003.

82. K. M. Sim and C. Y. Choi. Foundation of Market-driven Agents: An Adaptation of Zeuthen’s bargaining Model. In Proc. of the 2nd  Int. Conf. on Intelligent Agent Tech. (IAT 2001), pp 405-411, Oct. 2001, Japan.

83. K. M. Sim and E. Wong. Engineering Market-driven Agents for Electronic Auction. In Proc. of the Pacific Asia Conf. on Info. Sys. 2000, pages 1128-1138.