ISEM: A multiagent simulator for testing agent market strategies

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

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-113

  Viamonte, Maria João ^a   Ramos, Carlos ^a   Rodrigues, Fátima ^a   Cardoso, José Carlos ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agent risk preferences; Agent based simulation; Data mining; Dynamic agent strategic behavior; Electronic markets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTERNET; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALES;

AGENT RISK PREFERENCES; AGENT-BASED SIMULATION; DYNAMIC AGENT STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR; ELECTRONIC MARKETS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644930811     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2005.860592     Document Type: Article

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