6. Conclusions and future work
An agent-based negotiation team is a group of two or more interdependent agents that join together as a single negotiation
party because they share some common interests in the negotiation at hand. Intra-team strategies govern which decisions
are taken by the negotiation team, and how and when these decisions are taken. The goal of this article is studying how
environmental conditions affect the performance of different intra-team strategies for a team negotiating with an opponent.
We studied how the deadline of both parties, the concession speed of the opponent, similarity among team members’ preferences
and team size affect the performance of Representative (RE) intra-team strategy, Similarity Simple Voting (SSV) intra-
team strategy, Similarity Borda Voting (SBV) intra-team strategy and Full Unanimity Mediated (FUM) intra-team strategy in terms of the minimum utility of team members, the average utility of team members and the number of negotiation
rounds. The results suggest that depending on the environmental conditions and the team performance metric, team members
should select different intra-team strategies, which confirms our initial hypothesis in this article. Next, we summarize some
of the most important results found in this paper: