Scheduling Tasks with Precedence Constraints to Solicit Desirable Bid Combinations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 345-352

  Babanov, Alexander ^a   Collins, John ^a   Gini, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated auctions; Expected utility; Multi agent contracting; Risk estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHEDULING;

AUTOMATED AUCTIONS; EXPECTED UTILITY; MULTI-AGENT CONTRACTING; RISK ESTIMATION;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 1142305170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860575.860631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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