Incorporating Emotions into Automated Negotiation
Michael Huhns
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Abstract
We introduce an emotional agent model that shows how emotions affect an agent's nego-tiation strategy. By adding emotions, we add the effects of these indirectly related fea-tures to the negotiation, features that are ig-nored in most models. Our new method, the PAD Emotional Negotiation Model, maps a nonemotional agent's strategy during nego-tiation to the strategy used by an emotional agent. Our evaluations show this model can be used to implement agents with various emotional states that mimic human emotions during negotiation.
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