Analyzing intra-team strategies for agent-based negotiation teams

10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2011, AAMAS 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 873-880

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

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agreement Technologies; Collective decision making; Negotiation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGREEMENT TECHNOLOGIES; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; CONFLICTING PREFERENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; NEGOTIATION TEAMS; TEAM MEMBERS;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84899452210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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