Common use of Experiments Clause in Contracts

Experiments. In this section, we explore the behavior of the proposed negotiation model in different scenar- ios. The proposed framework has been imple- mented in genius (▇▇▇ et al., 2012), a simulation framework for automated negotiation that allows researchers to test their frameworks and ▇▇▇▇▇▇- ▇▇▇▇ against state-of-the-art agents designed by other researchers. Recently, genius has become a widespread tool that increases its repository of ne- gotiating agents with the annual negotiation com- petition (Baarslag et al., 2012). In order to assess the performance of the pro- posed negotiation approach, we have performed dif- ferent experiments. All of the experiments have been carried out in the negotiation domain (or case study) introduced in Section 2.4. The first exper- iment (Section 6.1) studies the performance of the proposed model when facing single opponent agent. The comparison is carried out in scenarios with dif- ferent degrees of team’s preference dissimilarity. In the second experiment, we study the performance of our negotiation team model when facing another negotiation team in bilateral negotiations. In the third experiment (Section 6.3) we study how the Bayesian weights wA and wop, which control the importance given to the preferences of the team and the opponent in the unpredictable partial offer pro- posed to teammates, impact the performance of the proposed model when team members employ the Bayesian strategy. Finally, we conduct an experi- ment to study the effect of team members’ ▇▇▇▇▇- vation utility on the performance of the proposed negotiation model (Section 6.4).