Estimating utility-functions for negotiating agents: Using conjoint analysis as an alternative approach to expected utility measurement

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3550 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 94-105

  Becker, Marc ^a   Czap, Hans ^a   Poppensieker, Malte ^a   Stotz, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CONJOINT ANALYSIS; MARKETING RESEARCH; UTILITY MEASUREMENT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646052857     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11550648_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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