Exploring social networks in request for proposal dynamic coalition formation problems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4696 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 143-152

  Merida Campos, Carlos ^a   Willmott, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING PROBABILITY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMMUNICATION TERMS; LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENTS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 38049146601     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75254-7_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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