A Proposed Approach to Sophisticated Negotiation

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-01-03, Issue , 2001, Pages 96-105

  Zhang, Xiaoqin ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a   Wagner, Tom ^b  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrative Negotiation; Multi Leveled; Multi Linked

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; INTEGRATIVE NEGOTIATION; MULTI-LEVELED; MULTI-LINKED; MULTIPLE ISSUE; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; ORGANISATIONAL OBJECTIVES; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; PARTIAL ORDER SCHEDULES; POTENTIAL CONFLICT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84901716061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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