Towards a Structured Design of Electronic Negotiations

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 311-335

  Bichler, Martin ^a   Kersten, Gregory ^b   Strecker, Stefan ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic auctions; Electronic negotiation media; Electronic negotiations; Negotiation engineering; Negotiation protocols; Negotiation support systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042806141     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024867820235     Document Type: Review

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