Dynamic pricing by software agents

Computer Networks

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 731-752

  Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a   Hanson, James E ^a   Greenwald, Amy R ^b  

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

^b PO Box 1910 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COSTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DYNAMIC PRICING; ECONOMIC SOFTWARE AGENTS; PRICEBOTS; SHOPBOTS;

INTERNET;

EID: 0033702048     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(00)00026-8     Document Type: Article

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