DESIGNING ROBUST, OPEN ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES OF CONTRACT NET AGENTS

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 495-500

  Dellarocas, Chrysanthos ^a   Klein, Mark ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic commerce; simulation and modeling; Software agents

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE; CONTRACT NETS; ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES; HUMAN SOCIETY; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; OPEN AGENTS; OPEN-ARCHITECTURES; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; SIMULATION AND MODELING; SYSTEMIC FAILURE;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0006724478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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