Cooperative meeting scheduling among agents based on multiple negotiations

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

Volumn 2172 LNCS, Issue , 2001, Pages 95-107

  Shintani, Toramatsu ^a   Ito, Takayuki ^b  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SCHEDULING; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

DISTRIBUTED MEETINGS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; MECHANISM-BASED; MEETING SCHEDULING; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY; MULTIAGENT NEGOTIATION; PREFERENCE REVISION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 23044531415     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44751-2_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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