Fuzzy Kernel-Stable Coalitions between Rational Agents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 9-16

  Blankenburg, Bastian ^a   Klusch, Matthias ^a   Shehory, Onn ^b  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Fuzzy cooperative games; Fuzzy kernel

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FUZZY SETS; GAME THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COALITION FORMATION; FUZZY COOPERATIVE GAMES; FUZZY KERNEL;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 1142280966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860576.860578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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