Conflicts and negotiation in single function agent based design systems

Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-32

  Berker, Ilan ^a,b,c   Brown, David C ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Critics; Design; Negotiation; Parametric; Selection; SiFA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002977142     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293x9600400103     Document Type: Article

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