Bidding mechanisms for data allocation in multi-agent environments

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

Volumn 1365, Issue , 1998, Pages 61-75

  Schwartz, Rina ^a   Kraus, Sarit ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ALLOCATION POLICIES; BIDDING MECHANISM; COMPLETE INFORMATION; DATA ALLOCATION; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; MULTI-AGENT ENVIRONMENT; STORAGE LOCATION;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84961345371     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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