Co-adaptive strategies for sequential bargaining problems with discount factors and outside options

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2149-2156

  Jin, Nanlin ^a,b   Tsang, Edward ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; DISCOUNT FACTORS; GAME-THEORETIC EQUILIBRIUMS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DATA STRUCTURES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 34547250175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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