DR-NEGOTIATE - A system for automated agent negotiation with defeasible logic-based strategies

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 362-380

  Skylogiannis, Thomas ^a   Antoniou, Grigoris ^a,b   Bassiliades, Nick ^c   Governatori, Guido ^d   Bikakis, Antonis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent negotiation; Declarative negotiation strategies; Declarative rule language; Defeasible logic; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

AGENT NEGOTIATION; DECLARATIVE NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES; DECLARATIVE RULE LANGUAGES; DEFEASIBLE LOGIC;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; SUPERVISORY AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 34447287143     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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