Multi-issue automated negotiations using agents

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 588-595

  Chari, Kaushal ^a   Agrawal, Manish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bargaining; Decision making; Heuristic; Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449103670     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1060.0203     Document Type: Article

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