Determining successful negotiation strategies: An evolutionary approach

Proceedings - International Conference on Multi Agent Systems, ICMAS 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 182-189

  Matos, Noyda ^a   Sierra, Carles ^a   Jennings, Nick R ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; GENETIC MATERIALS; MULTI-AGENT ENVIRONMENT; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871845523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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