Principal-agent learning

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 75-81

  Boylu, Fidan ^a   Aytug, Haldun ^b   Koehler, Gary J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Principal agent; Strategic gaming; Utility based learning

Indexed keywords

ADVERSARIAL LEARNING; INDUCTION PROCESS; LEARNING METHODS; MODEL PRINCIPAL AGENTS; PRINCIPAL-AGENT; STRATEGIC ACTIVITIES; STRATEGIC BEHAVIORS; STRATEGIC GAMING; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; UTILITY-BASED LEARNING;

AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 67349205053     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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