Cooperative vs. Competitive multi-agent negotiations in retail electronic commerce

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

Volumn 1435, Issue , 1998, Pages 135-147

  Guttman, Robert H ^a   Maes, Pattie ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION THEORY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GAME THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SALES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE; DECISION ANALYSIS TOOL; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION; MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY; MULTIAGENT NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION PROTOCOL; ONLINE AUCTION PROTOCOL; RETAIL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84957648457     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0053680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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