Price and niche wars in a free-market economy of software agents

Artificial Life

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-23

  Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a   Hanson, James E ^a   Sairamesh, Jakka ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Electronic commerce; Emergent phenomena; Information economies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST; ECONOMICS;

COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032324729     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454698568413     Document Type: Article

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