Argumentation and artifacts for negotiation support

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 4, Issue 10 S, 2010, Pages 90-117

  Oliva, Enrico ^a   McBurney, Peter ^b   Omicini, Andrea ^a   Viroli, Mirko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agents; Argumentation; Artifacts; Dialogues; Logic programming; Multiagent systems; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954767173     PISSN: 09740635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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