A rule-driven approach for defining the behaviour of negotiating software agents

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

Volumn 2468, Issue , 2002, Pages 165-181

  Benyoucef, Morad ^a   Alj, Hakim ^a   Levy, Kim ^a   Keller, Rudolf K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ZÜHLKE ENGINEERING AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

BIDDING STRATEGY; COORDINATION SCHEME; HIGH LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; HUMAN UNDERSTANDING; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; NEGOTIATION SERVERS; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY; NEGOTIATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 84944073315     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36261-4_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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