Inter-agent dialogues in electronic marketplaces

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-17

  Karacapilidis, Nikos ^a   Moraïtis, Pavlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Agent based marketplace; Electronic commerce; Interagent Dialogues

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MARKETING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT-BASED MARKETPLACE; INTERAGENT DIALOGUES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 1442356048     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0824-7935.2004.t01-1-00227.x     Document Type: Article

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