Acquiring domain knowledge for negotiating agents: A case of study

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-31

  Castro Schez, Jose J ^a,b   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a   Luo, Xudong ^a   Shadbolt, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Paseo de la Universidad 4   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CONTROL; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION TECHNIQUES; NEGOTIATING AGENTS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 3042531432     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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