Auction equilibrium strategies for task allocation in uncertain environments

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3191, Issue , 2004, Pages 271-285

  Sarne, David ^a   Hadad, Meirav ^b   Kraus, Sarit ^a,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ALLOCATION MECHANISM; COOPERATIVE AGENTS; EQUILIBRIUM STRATEGY; INFORMATION AGENTS; JOINT ALLOCATION; SAMPLE ENVIRONMENT; SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS; UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS; AUCTIONS; DISTRIBUTED TASK ALLOCATION;

MANAGERS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 22944449668     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30104-2_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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