A multi-agent system for e-barter including transaction and shipping costs

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 587-594

  López, Natalia ^a   Núñez, Manuel ^a   Rodríguez, Ismael ^a   Rubio, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

e commerce; Process algebras

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

PROCESS ALGEBRA;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 17144466544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/952532.952650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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