  In this article we study the impact of the negotiation environment on the
performance of several intra-team strategies (team dynamics) for agent-based
negotiation teams that negotiate with an opponent. An agent-based negotiation
team is a group of agents that joins together as a party because they share
common interests in the negotiation at hand. It is experimentally shown how
negotiation environment conditions like the deadline of both parties, the
concession speed of the opponent, similarity among team members, and team size
affect performance metrics like the minimum utility of team members, the
average utility of team members, and the number of negotiation rounds. Our goal
is identifying which intra-team strategies work better in different
environmental conditions in order to provide useful knowledge for team members
to select appropriate intra-team strategies according to environmental
conditions.
