The search for coalition formation in costly environments

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

Volumn 2782, Issue , 2003, Pages 117-136

  Sarne, David ^a   Kraus, Sarit ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS BUYER AGENTS; COALITIONS; COMPUTATION PROCESS; BUYER AGENT; COALITION FORMATIONS; COALITION STRUCTURE; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; POTENTIAL PARTNERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 7044248187     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45217-1_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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