An infrastructure for rule-driven negotiating software agents

Proceedings - International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 737-741

  Benyoucef, M ^a   Alj, H ^a   Keller, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Application software; Business; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Contracts; Decision making; Engines; Humans; Protocols; Software agents

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTRACTS; DECISION MAKING; ENGINES; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

ADAPTIVE NEGOTIATION; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE; HUMANS; IF-THEN RULES; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY; RULE-BASED APPROACH; WIDE SPECTRUM;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 4544298914     PISSN: 15294188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEXA.2001.953145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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