Market-aware agents for a multiagent world

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 115-125

  Wellman, Michael P ^a   Wurman, Peter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational markets; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MARKET PRICE SYSTEMS; MULTI-AGENT MARKET SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032155203     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00026-8     Document Type: Article

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