Altruism and agents: An argumentation based approach to designing agent decision mechanisms

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 974-981

  Bench Capon, Trevor ^a   Atkinson, Katie ^a   McBurney, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DECISION MECHANISM; DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORKS; DECISION-MAKING MECHANISMS; DESIGNING AGENTS; EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; SOCIAL VALUES; ULTIMATUM GAME;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84899797864     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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