Multi-agent negotiation using linguistically expressed mediation rules

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-23

  Yager, Ronald R ^a  

^a MACHINE INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Fuzzy sets; Mediation; OWA operators; Preference aggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846389151     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-005-9009-3     Document Type: Article

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