A Negotiation Enabling Agent Based Infrastructure: Composition and Behavior

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-99

  Szirbik, Nick ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent provider; Mediated negotiation; Multi agent systems; Virtual enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036105057     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015346808770     Document Type: Article

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