A hybrid model for sharing information between fuzzy, uncertain and default reasoning models in multi-agent systems

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowldege-Based Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 401-450

  Luo, Xudong ^a   Zhang, Chengqi ^b   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent; Automated negotiation; Default reasoning; Expert system; Fuzzy reasoning; Knowledge based system; Linguistic truth; Uncertain reasoning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

FUZZY REASONING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036692902     PISSN: 02184885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218488502001557     Document Type: Article

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