Markets without makers - a framework for decentralized economic coordination in multiagent systems

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

Volumn 2232, Issue , 2001, Pages 63-74

  Eymann, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NETWORK SECURITY; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CLIENT/SERVER MODELS; COORDINATION IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ECONOMIC APPROACH; ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES; IT ENVIRONMENTS; MARKET PARTICIPANTS; UTILITY MAXIMIZATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84949472576     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45598-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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