An electronic marketplace based on reputation and learning

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Roozmand, Omid ^a   Nematbakhsh, Mohammad Ali ^a   Baraani, Ahmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce agents; Reinforcement learning; Reputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250654144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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