Facing the challenge of human-agent negotiations via effective general opponent modeling

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 750-757

  Oshrat, Yinon ^a   Lin, Raz ^a   Kraus, Sarit ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated bilateral negotiation; Opponent modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED AGENTS; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATION AGENTS; BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS; HUMAN AGENT; KNOWLEDGE BASE; OPPONENT MODELING; UTILITY VALUES;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 77958523438     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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