Agent-based bilateral multi-issue negotiation scheme for e-market transactions

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1057-1067

  Chen, Yee Ming ^a   Huang, Pei Ni ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Multi issue; Negotiation; Software agents

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED; COMPUTATIONAL ENTITIES; E MARKETS; ELECTRONIC MARKETS; INFORMATION SEARCHING; MULTI-ISSUE; MULTI-ISSUE NEGOTIATIONS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE DECISIONS; NEGOTIATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DECISION THEORY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FUZZY SETS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 67349169089     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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