Bilateral negotiation decisions with uncertain dynamic outside options

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

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-44

  Li, Cuihong ^a   Giampapa, Joseph ^b   Sycara, Katia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BILATERAL NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY; SINGLE THREADED NEGOTIATION MODEL;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 33644921753     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2005.860573     Document Type: Article

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