Balancing utility and deal probability for auction-based negotiations in highly nonlinear utility spaces

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 214-219

  Marsa Maestre, Ivan ^a   Lopez Carmona, Miguel A ^a   Velasco, Juan R ^a   Ito, Takayuki ^b   Klein, Mark ^b   Fujita, Katsuhide ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUCTION-BASED NEGOTIATIONS; CONSTRAINT SAMPLING; CONSTRAINT-BASED; IDENTIFICATION PROCESS; NEGOTIATION MECHANISM; NONLINEAR UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 78751694651     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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