MOPaC: The Multiple Offers Protocol for Multilateral Negotiations with Partial Consensus
This addresses the need for more flexible negotiation mechanisms in scenarios where full agreement is impractical, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing protocols.
The paper tackles the problem of requiring full consensus in multilateral negotiations by proposing a protocol that allows partial consensus, enabling agreements among only a subset of parties, and formally describes this protocol.
Existing protocols for multilateral negotiation require a full consensus among the negotiating parties. In contrast, we propose a protocol for multilateral negotiation that allows partial consensus, wherein only a subset of the negotiating parties can reach an agreement. We motivate problems that require such a protocol and describe the protocol formally.