Reaching unanimous agreements within agent-based negotiation teams with linear and monotonic utility functions

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 778-792

  Sanchez Anguix, Victor ^a   Julian, Vicente ^a   Botti, Vicente ^a   Garcia Fornes, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agreement technologies; automated negotiation; multiagent systems; negotiation teams

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; NEGOTIATION MODELS; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; NEGOTIATION TEAMS; TEAM DECISION; TEAM MEMBERS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GAME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; GAME THEORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEGOTIATING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84861190785     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2011.2177658     Document Type: Article

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