A negotiation model for autonomous computational agents: Formal description and empirical evaluation

Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 195-212

  Lopes, Fernando ^a   Mamede, Nuno ^b   Novais, A Q ^a   Coelho, Helder ^c  

^a INETI   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EMPIRICAL EVALUATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 0038215464     PISSN: 10641246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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