Coalition formation under uncertainty: Bargaining equilibria and the Bayesian core stability concept

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 412-419

  Chalkiadakis, Georgios ^a,c   Markakis, Evangelos ^b   Boutilier, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Multilateral bargaining

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING GAMES; BAYESIAN; COALITION FORMATION; COALITIONAL GAMES; CORE STABILITIES; MULTILATERAL BARGAINING; NON COOPERATIVES; RATIONAL AGENTS; STABILITY CONCEPTS; STRATEGIC INTERACTIONS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; GAME THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 60349095982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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