Kemnad: A knowledge engineering methodology for negotiating agent development

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-105

  Luo, Xudong ^a   Miao, Chunyan ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^b   He, Minghua ^c   Shen, Zhiqi ^d   Zhang, Minjie ^e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

agents; automated negotiation; e business; knowledge engineering; software engineering

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL PATTERN; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; EBUSINESS; GENERIC FRAMEWORKS; HIGH IMPACT; HUMAN USERS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES; MAIN TASKS; NEGOTIATING AGENTS; NEGOTIATION AGENTS; REUSABLE DESIGN; STANDARDIZED COMPONENTS; SUBTASKS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT;

AGENTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84863230427     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2012.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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