A decentralized model for multi-attribute negotiations with incomplete information and general utility functions

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 89, Issue , 2008, Pages 39-57

  Lai, Guoming ^a   Sycara, Katia ^b   Li, Cuihong ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 41249102156     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76282-9_3     Document Type: Article

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