Dynamics of an information-filtering economy

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

Volumn 1435, Issue , 1998, Pages 160-171

  Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a   Hanson, James E ^a   Levine, David W ^a   Grosof, Benjamin N ^a   Sairamesh, Jakka ^a   Segal, Richard B ^a   White, Steve R ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET;

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; AUTOMATED INFORMATION; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; INFORMATION ECONOMY; PRICE WAR; PROCESSING COSTS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

EID: 84957717792     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0053682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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