Evolutionary-aided negotiation model for bilateral bargaining in Ambient Intelligence domains with complex utility functions

Information Sciences

Volumn 222, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-46

  Sánchez Anguix, Víctor ^a   Valero, Soledad ^a   Julián, Vicente ^a   Botti, Vicente ^a   García Fornes, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agreement technologies; Automated negotiation; Bilateral bargaining; Evolutionary computation; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; BARGAINING MODEL; BILATERAL BARGAINING; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; GENETIC OPERATORS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); MULTI-ISSUE; NEGOTIATION MODELS; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; NICHING GENETIC ALGORITHM; PERSONALIZED SERVICE; SELF-SAMPLING; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870065934     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.11.018     Document Type: Article

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