Towards autonomous and automatic evaluation and negotiation in agent-mediated internet marketplaces

Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 343-365

  Wang, Yan ^a   Tan, Kian Lee ^b   Ren, Jian ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fuzzy evaluation criterion; Mobile agent; Negotiation and internet marketplace; Two phase evaluation model

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMERCE;

E-SHOPPERS; E-SHOPS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; EVALUATION MODELS; FUZZY EVALUATION; FUZZY EVALUATION CRITERIA; NEGOTIATION AND INTERNET MARKETPLACE; PHASE EVALUATION; TWO PHASE; TWO-PHASE EVALUATION MODEL;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 26944466692     PISSN: 13895753     EISSN: 15729362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10660-005-1178-2     Document Type: Article

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