Cooperative agent systems: Artificial agents play the ultimatum game

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 2207-2215

  Zhong, F ^a   Kimbrough, S O ^b   Wu, D J ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Autonomous agents; Economic forecasting; Educational institutions; Game theory; Humans; Intelligent agent; Internet; Psychology; Software agents

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATION THEORY; ECONOMICS; GAME THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

CLASSICAL GAME THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COOPERATIVE AGENTS; ECONOMIC FORECASTING; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; HUMANS; LEARNING SOFTWARE; PSYCHOLOGY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84948707729     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2002.994150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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