A two-stage win-win multiattribute negotiation model: Optimization and then concession

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 577-626

  Pan, Li ^a   Luo, Xudong ^b   Meng, Xiangxu ^a   Miao, Chunyan ^c   He, Minghua ^d   Guo, Xingchen ^e  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agent; automated negotiation; e business; evolutionary computing; multiattribute decision making

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; EBUSINESS; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING; EVOLUTIONARY METHOD; MULTI ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; MULTIATTRIBUTE NEGOTIATION; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES;

AGENTS; EXPERIMENTS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84880707525     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2012.00434.x     Document Type: Article

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