Knowledge-Based Acquisition of Tradeoff Preferences for Negotiating Agents

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 138-149

  Luo, Xudong ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a   Shadbolt, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making software agent; e Commerce; Negotiation; Preference elicitation; Tradeoff

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FUZZY SETS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

DECISION MAKING SOFTWARE AGENTS; NEGOTIATIONS; PREFERENCE ELICITATION; TRADEOFF;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 1142292465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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