Meta-level coordination for solving negotiation chains in semi-cooperative multi-agent systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 50-57

  Zhang, Xiaoqin ^a   Lesser, Victor ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Multi linked negotiation; Negotiation chain

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT NEGOTIATIONS; EXPECTED UTILITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FLEXIBILITY; INDIVIDUAL AGENTS; MULTI-LINKED NEGOTIATION; MULTIPLE AGENTS; NEGOTIATION CHAIN; SINGLE AGENTS;

AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; FUZZY CLUSTERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650759934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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