Electronic institutions as a framework for agents' negotiation and mutual commitment

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

Volumn 2258 LNAI, Issue , 2001, Pages 232-245

  Rocha, Ana Paula ^a   Oliveira, Eugénio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

BUSINESS TO BUSINESS; ELECTRONIC INSTITUTIONS; ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LEARNING CAPABILITIES; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; OPERATION MONITORING; VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS; ELECTRONIC BUSINESS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 33847012969     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45329-6_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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