The posit spaces protocol for multi-agent negotiation

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

Volumn 2922, Issue , 2004, Pages 364-382

  McBurney, Peter ^a   Parsons, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GAME THEORY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS; DIALOGUE GAMES; ELECTRONIC DOMAINS; POSIT SPACES PROTOCOLS (PSP); ARGUMENTATION THEORY; AXIOMATIC SEMANTICS; DIALOGUE GAME; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS; JOINT COMMITMENT; MULTI AGENT; MULTIAGENT NEGOTIATION; POSIT SPACES PROTOCOLS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 23144466269     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24608-4_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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