Some issues in the design of market-oriented agents

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

Volumn 1037, Issue , 1996, Pages 283-298

  Mullen, Tracy ^a   Wellman, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

AGGREGATE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMY; COMPUTATIONAL MARKET; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; STATIC PROBLEMS; THEORETICAL TECHNIQUE;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84957662973     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3540608052_73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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