Social reputation: A mechanism for flexible self-regulation of multiagent systems

JASSS

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Hahn, Christian ^a   Fley, Bettina ^a   Florian, Michael ^a   Spresny, Daniela ^a   Fischer, Klaus ^a  

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Author keywords

Electronic market; Institution; Multiagent system; Reputation; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846848093     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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