Emergence and stability of collaborations among rational agents

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2782, Issue , 2003, Pages 192-205

  Sen, Sandip ^a   Dutta, Partha Sarathi ^b   Saha, Sabyasachi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; COSTS;

COST METRIC; MALEVOLENT AGENTS; RATIONAL AGENTS; RECIPROCITY FRAMEWORK;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

DECISION MECHANISM; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; HISTORICAL DATA; QUALITY OF WORK; REALISTIC DOMAINS; SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS; TASK COMPLETION TIME; TIME OF DELIVERY;

EID: 7044248022     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45217-1_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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