Walverine: A Walrasian trading agent

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-184

  Cheng, Shih Fen ^a   Leung, Evan ^a   Lochner, Kevin M ^a   O'Malley, Kevin ^a   Reeves, Daniel M ^a   Schvartzman, Julian L ^a   Wellman, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION THEORY; GAME THEORY; MARKETING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

BIDDING METHODS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; TRADING AGENTS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 10444238075     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2003.10.005     Document Type: Article

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