Modelling reputation in agent-based marketplaces to improve the performance of buying agents

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2702, Issue , 2003, Pages 273-282

  Tran, Thomas ^a   Cohen, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PURCHASING; COMMERCE; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SALES;

ECONOMIC AGENTS; ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES; PRODUCT QUALITY; SELLING AGENTS; AGENT BASED; ELECTRONIC MARKET; EXPECTED VALUES; LOW QUALITIES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 8344277412     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44963-9_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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