Gahboninho: Strategy for Balancing Pressure and Compromise in Automated Negotiation

“Gahboninho” agent was first introduced in the ANAC’11 competition. The underlying strategy it implemented follow the assumption it will be matched with other automated agents which vary in their compromising level. Thus, it tries to tackle strong opposition by putting pressure on the opponent. The stubbornness of the agent is also balanced based on the behavior of its opponent in order to achieve higher utilities.