Towards genetically optimised responsive negotiation agents

Proceedings - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. IAT 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 295-301

  Lau, Raymond Y K ^a   Tang, Maolin ^a   Wong, On ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive Agents; Automated Negotiation; Genetic Algorithm

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE AGENTS; AUGUMENT NEGOTIATION; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION AGENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; FUNCTIONS; GAME THEORY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 16244364360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAT.2004.1342958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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