Predicting opponent's moves in electronic negotiations using neural networks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1266-1273

  Carbonneau, Réal ^a   Kersten, Gregory E ^b   Vahidov, Rustam ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Counter offer prediction; Electronic negotiations; Neural networks; Offer optimization; Opponent modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COUNTER-OFFER PREDICTION; ELECTRONIC NEGOTIATIONS; OFFER OPTIMIZATION; OPPONENT MODELING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 36148997671     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2006.12.027     Document Type: Article

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