Cooperative agent systems: Artificial agents play the ultimatum game

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 433-447

  Zhong, Fang ^a   Wu, D J ^a   Kimbrough, Steven O ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial agents; Cooperative agent systems; Reinforcement learning; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141680468     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020687015632     Document Type: Article

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