Mining 'Living' Data - Providing Context Information to a Negotiation Process Simeon J. Simoff   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Posters Abstract Negotiation is the process whereby two (or more) individual agents with conflicting interests reach a mutually beneficial agreement on a set of issues. In negotiation the exchange of information is as important as the exchange of offers. During a negotiation, an agent may actively acquire contextual information that it may, or may not, choose to place on the negotiation table. This work presents a multi-agent framework for negotiation support and discusses on more details a framework for on-line data mining that supports the identification of contextual information and providing it on negotiator's demand. The smart data mining agents that support the negotiation agent, are expected to operate under time-constraints and over dynamically changing corpus of information. DiSC'03 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery