An ontology based approach to automated negotiation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2531, Issue , 2002, Pages 219-237

  Tamma, Valentina ^a   Wooldridge, Michael ^a   Blacoe, Ian ^a   Dickinson, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ONTOLOGY;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; NEGOTIATION MECHANISM; ONTOLOGY-BASED; OPEN ENVIRONMENT; SHARED ONTOLOGIES; TRADING AGENT COMPETITION; WALKTHROUGHS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84942595544     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36378-5_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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