Maximizing welfare through cooperative negotiation in a multi-agent Internet economy

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 331-351

  Dasgupta, Prithviraj ^a   Melliar Smith, P Michael ^b   Moser, Louise E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing; E commerce; Game theory; Software agents; Supply and demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746241990     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622006001964     Document Type: Article

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