Task assignment in multiagent systems based on vickrey-type auctioning and leveled commitment contracting

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1860, Issue , 2000, Pages 95-106

  Brandt, Felix ^a   Brauer, Wilfried ^a   Weiß, Gerhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION;

AUCTION PROTOCOLS; AUTOMATED ASSIGNMENTS; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; MULTI-AGENT TASK ASSIGNMENTS; REALISTIC SCENARIO; RESEARCH EFFORTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 23044517609     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45012-2_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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