Protocols for Negotiating Complex Contracts

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 32-38

  Klein, Mark ^a   Faratin, Peyman ^a   Sayama, Hiroki ^b   Bar Yam, Yaneer ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c Systems Inst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEGOTIATION PROTOCOLS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PARETO PRINCIPLE; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 0346265970     PISSN: 10947167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2003.1249167     Document Type: Review

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