Bilateral bargaining with multiple opportunities: Knowing your opponent's bargaining position

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

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-55

  Gerding, Enrico H ^a   La Poutré, Han ^a,b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated negotiation; Evolutionary algorithms (EAs); Incomplete information; Multiple opportunities; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BILATERAL BARGAINING; COMPETITIVE MARKET; ULTIMATUM GAME;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 33644925541     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2005.860574     Document Type: Article

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