An extended alternating-offers bargaining protocol for automated negotiation in multi-agent systems

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 969-970

  Winoto, Pinata ^a   McCalla, Gordon ^a   Vassileva, Julita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SALES;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036923346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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