Searching for joint gains in automated negotiations based on multi-criteria decision making theory

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 508-515

  Vo, Quoc Bao ^a   Padgham, Lin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated negotiation; Integrative negotiation; Multi criteria decision making

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION; CONTINUOUS VALUES; EQUILIBRIUM STRATEGIES; FINITE SETS; INTEGRATIVE NEGOTIATION; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS; OPTIMISATION; PARETO-OPTIMAL; PARETO-OPTIMAL FRONTIERS; TRUTH-TELLING;

AUTOMATION; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY CLUSTERING; SET THEORY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 60449097376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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