An adaptive agent for negotiating with people in different cultures

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gal, Ya'Akov ^a   Kraus, Sarit ^b   Gelfand, Michele ^b   Khashan, Hilal ^c   Salmon, Elizabeth ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Cultural modeling; Human agent decision making

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL TRAITS; BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS; COMPUTER AGENTS; CULTURAL MODELING; DECISION MAKING MODELS; DEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIP; HIGH RELIABILITY; HUMAN SUBJECTS; HUMAN-AGENT DECISION MAKING; HUMAN-COMPUTER; LEBANON; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY; RULE BASED; SOCIAL UTILITY FUNCTIONS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 80155151641     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2036264.2036272     Document Type: Article

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