Searching for fair joint gains in agent-based negotiation

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 902-909

  Li, Minyi ^a   Vo, Quoc Bao ^a   Kowalczyk, Ryszard ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated negotiation; Fairness; Joint gains; Mediator; Pareto improvement

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; DIRECTIONAL DERIVATIVE; FAIRNESS; MEDIATOR; MULTI-ISSUE NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATING AGENTS; NEGOTIATION AGENTS; PARETO-IMPROVEMENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84899799115     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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