A Combination of Boolean Games with Description Logics for Automated Multi-Attribute Negotiation

Computational Proteomics

计算机科学;物理学

Thomas Lukasiewicz ; Azzurra Ragone

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学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Multi-attribute negotiation has been extensively studied from a gametheoretic viewpoint. In negotiation settings, utility functions are used to express agent preferences. Normal and extensive form games, however, have the drawback of requiring an explicit representation of utility functions, listing the utilityvalues for all combinations of strategies. Therefore, several logical preference languages have been proposed, to specify multi-attribute utility functions in a compact way. Among these approaches, there are also Boolean games. In this paper, we introduce Boolean description logic games, which are a combinationof Boolean games with ontological background knowledge, formulated using expressive description logics. In this way, it is possible to enhance the expressiveness of preference representation, maintaining the advantages of the game-theoretic approach. We include and discuss several generalizations, showingtheir practical usefulness within a service negotiation scenario. Furthermore, we also provide complexity results.