Electronic negotiations concern transactions on the basis of electronic media, such as the Internet. Platforms have been developed to aid participants in electronic markets during the agreement phase. The key activity in this is the matching of offers and requests, for which we need a ranking of the alternatives. In this book the author defines a framework in which a ranking can be generated in order to acquire an optimal decision for a desired transaction - this process is called matchmaking.
The author introduces a generic framework for multidimensional, multiattribute matchmaking, its implementation, and an analysis of it. The genericity of the author’s approach means that the implementation, realized as a multiagent system, can represent both offering and requesting agents, and the framework can be applied to a huge variety of applications. The use cases in the book are derived from the human resources domain, and thus involve quite complex matchmaking.

The author’s presentation is thorough and self-contained. He provides definitions of the relevant business and computer science terms, and detailed explanations of the underlying mathematical tools and software implementations.

电子谈判涉及以因特网等电子媒介为基础的交易。在协议阶段，已经开发了平台来帮助电子市场的参与者。其中的关键活动是提供和请求的匹配，为此我们需要对备选方案进行排序。在这本书中，作者定义了一个框架，在这个框架中，排名可以生成，以便获得一个理想的交易最佳决策-这个过程被称为配对。
作者介绍了一个多维多属性匹配的通用框架，它的实现，并对其进行了分析。作者方法的通用性意味着实现作为一个多代理系统实现，可以同时表示提供代理和请求代理，并且该框架可以应用于各种各样的应用程序。书中的用例来自人力资源领域，因此涉及相当复杂的匹配。
作者的陈述是透彻和完整的。他提供了相关商业和计算机科学术语的定义，并详细解释了底层的数学工具和软件实现。