Multi-dimensional, MultiStep negotiation for task allocation in a cooperative system

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-40

  Zhang, Xiaoqin ^a   Lesser, Victor ^b   Podorozhny, Rodion ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative negotiation; Distributed search; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING PROCESSES; COOPERATIVE NEGOTIATION; DISTRIBUTED SEARCH; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPETITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSTS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 22044435779     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-004-5020-3     Document Type: Article

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