Towards a web services and intelligent agents-based negotiation system for B2B eCommerce

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 260-273

  Lau, Raymond Y K ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Automated negotiations; eCommerce; Intelligent agents; Web services

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION; B2B ECOMMERCE; NEGOTIATION MODELS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34548632680     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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