A Multi-Issue Negotiation Protocol Among Nonlinear Utility Agents: A Preliminary Report

1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan ito.takayuki@nitech.ac.jp 2 Center for Collective Intelligence, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Three Cambridge Center, NE20-336, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA m klein@mit.edu 3 Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

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