Information Acquisition Policies for Resource Allocation among Multiple Agents

Information Systems Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 151-170

  Moore, J C ^a   Rao, H R ^b   Whinston, A ^c   Nam, K ^b   Raghu, T S ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete Resource Allocation; Information Acquisition Policies; Team Problem Solving

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; INFORMATION ACQUISITIONS; MULTIPLE AGENTS; PREFERENCE ORDER; TRADE OFF;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031501832     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.8.2.151     Document Type: Article

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