Learning opponent's preferences for effective negotiation: An approach based on concept learning

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-140

  Aydoǧan, Reyhan ^a   Yolum, Pinar ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Disjunctive Preferences; Negotiation; Ontology Reasoning; Preference Learning

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATE NEGOTIATION; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; CONCEPT LEARNING; DISJUNCTIVE PREFERENCES; INDUCTIVE LEARNING; NEGOTIATION; PREFERENCE LEARNING; SERVICE REQUESTS;

ONTOLOGY; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84855322597     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-010-9147-0     Document Type: Article

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