Monopolizing markets by exploiting trust

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1249-1256

  Sen, Sandip ^a   Banerjee, Dipyaman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Markets; Monopoly; Supply chains; Trust

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTEES; ELECTRONIC SUPPLY CHAINS; MARKET SHARE; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONTRACTORS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SALES;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 34247216117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1160633.1160858     Document Type: Conference Paper

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