Agent-based game-theoretic model for collaborative web services: Decision making analysis

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3207-3219

  Khosravifar, Babak ^a   Bentahar, Jamal ^b   Mizouni, Rabeb ^c   Otrok, Hadi ^c   Alishahi, Mahsa ^b   Thiran, Philippe ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agent computing; Decision making; Payoff; Web service

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGENT-BASED WEB SERVICES; BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; COLLABORATIVE WEB SERVICES; COOPERATIVE AGENTS; COOPERATIVE GROUPS; COOPERATIVE STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED ENTITY; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GAME-THEORETIC; GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; PAYOFF; SERVICE COMPUTING; THEORETICAL RESULT;

DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY; WEB SERVICES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84874654257     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.12.034     Document Type: Article

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