Ontologies for supporting negotiation in e-commerce

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-236

  Tamma, Valentina ^a   Phelps, Steve ^a   Dickinson, Ian ^b   Wooldridge, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent negotiation; Ontologies; Semantic web technology

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CODES (STANDARDS); NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AGENT NEGOTIATIONS; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; ONTOLOGIES; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 13844271291     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2004.11.011     Document Type: Article

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