Review and perspective of agent negotiation

Since Jennings researched on negotiation in 2001,negotiation becomes a focus of MAS.Definition,research content and applied domains of negotiation are introduced in this paper;Its computation complexity is analyzed;An universal single-issue negotiation and multi-issues negotiation protocol model based on game theory is given;It gives the review of multi-issues negotiation strategy and learning algorithm and introduces two classical multi-issues negotiation:auction and concurrent negotiation,gives their base model and research progress of combination auction,multi-attribute auction and concurrent negotiation;At the end,this paper discusses the existing problems and the future trend of negotiation researches.The paper pointes out that negotiation would be the mainstream of MAS researches.