Continuous-time negotiation mechanism for software agents

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1261-1272

  An, Bo ^a   Sim, Kwang Mong ^b   Tang, Liang Gui ^a   Li, Shuang Qing ^a   Cheng, Dai Jie ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Automated negotiation; Negotiation agents; One to many negotiation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CONTRACTS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MARKETING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; NEGOTIATION AGENTS; ONE TO MANY NEGOTIATIONS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 33947176782     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.874686     Document Type: Article

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