Mechanism design for task procurement with flexible quality of service

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5907 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 12-23

  Gerding, Enrico H ^a   Larson, Kate ^b   Rogers, Alex ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TASK; COST INFORMATION; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; MECHANISM DESIGN; PROCUREMENT MECHANISMS; RATIONAL MECHANISM; SERVICE PROVIDER;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COST FUNCTIONS; MACHINE DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SEMANTICS;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 71549137433     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10739-9_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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