Social utility functions - Part I: Theory

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 522-532

  Stirling, Wynn C ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Distributed control; Game theory; Intelligent systems; Multiagent systems; Probability theory; Rationality; Satisficing games

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; RATIONALITY; SATISFICING GAMES; SOCIAL UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 27844593296     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2004.843198     Document Type: Article

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