Foresight-based pricing algorithms in agent economies

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-60

  Tesauro, Gerald J ^a   Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMICS; GAME THEORY; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ADAPTIVE MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; AGENT FORESIGHT; MINIMAX SEARCH; PRICE WARS; PRICING ALGORITHMS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0033879725     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(99)00074-3     Document Type: Article

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