Hybrid negotiation for resource coordination in multiagent systems

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 231-259

  Li, Xin ^a,b   Soh, Leen Kiat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Learning; Multiagent systems; Negotiation; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COORDINATION; LEARNING; NEGOTIATION; RESOURCE SHORTAGE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 29244458701     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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