Implementing rule-based mechanisms for agent-based price negotiations

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 96-100

  Bǎdicǎ, Costin ^a   Bǎdiţǎ, Adriana ^a   Ganzha, Maria ^b   Iordache, Alin ^a   Paprzycki, Marcin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

^b Elblag University of Humanities and Economy   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Auctions; Automated negotiations; Rule based systems; Software agents

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AUCTIONS; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; PRICE NEGOTIATIONS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751066774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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