Negotiation support and e-negotiation systems: An overview

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 553-586

  Kersten, Gregory E ^a   Lai, Hsiangchu ^b  

^a J Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electronic negotiations; ENS applications; ENS research; Negotiation software agents; Negotiation software assistants; Negotiation support systems; NSS applications; NSS research

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448967459     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-007-9095-5     Document Type: Article

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