Best Student Paper Award for Informatics PhD student

Informatics PhD student Valeriia Haberland has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 6th International Workshop on Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations (ACAN), held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, on the 6th of May 2013. ACAN is a well-known workshop in the field of autonomous negotiations between agents, which is held annually in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the premier conference on agent systems.

Their paper "Using Adjustable Fuzzy Inference for Adaptive Grid Resource Negotiation" focuses on adjusting the client's tactic to the tendentious changes in resource availability in a Grid environment. It proposes an adaptive negotiation strategy, which evaluates these changes based on the previous opponent's proposals and aims to maximise the amount of obtained resources or to avoid a negotiation failure because of resource exhaustion. The results show that this strategy can lead to better utility for a client.

For further details about this work, please contact Valeriia Haberland. Valeriia is supervised by Dr Simon Miles and Professor Michael Luck, of the Planning, Agents and Intelligent Systems Group in the Department of Informatics.