Adaptive agent negotiation for software process modeling

Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 557-566

  Li, Nao ^a,b   Li, Ming Shu ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Zhao, Chen ^a   Du, Shuan Zhu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Agent; Negotiation model; Q learning; Software process modeling

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROCESS MONITORING;

ADAPTABILITY; ADAPTIVE AGENTS; CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTABILITIES; FINITE-HORIZON MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS; NEGOTIATION MODEL; NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES; NON STATIONARIES; Q-LEARNING; Q-LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS MANAGEMENTS; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELING; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 63749133102     PISSN: 10009825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1001.2009.03314     Document Type: Article

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