A simultaneous multi-attribute soft-bargaining design for bilateral contracts

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 4417-4422

  Kebriaei, Hamed ^a   Majd, Vahid Johari ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Fuzzy sets; Multi agent systems; Multi attribute negotiation; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; CONTRACTS; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MICROCONTROLLERS;

BARGAINING; BEST MATCHING; BILATERAL CONTRACTS; CASE STUDIES; ENERGY MARKETS; FUZZY LINGUISTIC; INCOMPLETE INFORMATIONS; INTER DEPENDENCIES; MAXIMUM DEGREES; MEMBERSHIP DEGREES; MULTI AGENTS; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE NEGOTIATION; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL; NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION PROCESSES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 58349100067     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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