Modeling of multi-agent market systems in the presence of uncertainty: The case of information economy

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 93-113

  Bonatti, Mario ^a   Ermoliev, Yuri M ^b   Gaivoronski, Alexei A ^c  

^a Italtel SpA   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Multi agent systems; Simulation; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTI-AGENT MARKET SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0041763244     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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