Negotiating using rewards

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 171, Issue 10-15, 2007, Pages 805-837

  Ramchurn, Sarvapali D ^a   Sierra, Carles ^b   Godo, Lluís ^b   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Bilateral negotiation; Negotiation tactics; Persuasive negotiation; Repeated negotiations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORMAL LOGIC; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

BARGAINING; BILATERAL NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION TACTICS; PERSUASIVE NEGOTIATION; REPEATED NEGOTIATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548020964     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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