A game theoretic approach to contracts in multiagent systems

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

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-79

  Boella, Guido ^a   van der Torre, Leendert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contracts; Multiagent systems; Normative systems; Qualitative game theory

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

AGENT INTERACTION; GAME THEORETIC APPROACH; NEW INTERACTION POSIBILITIES; RECURSIVE MODELING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644909571     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2005.860576     Document Type: Article

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