Using similarity criteria to make negotiation trade-offs

Proceedings - 4th International Conference on MultiAgent Systems, ICMAS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 119-126

  Faratin, P ^a,b   Sierra, C ^b   Jennings, N R ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AUTOMATED NEGOTIATIONS; FUZZY SIMILARITY; MULTI DIMENSIONAL; REAL-WORLD; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS; SIMILARITY CRITERIA; TRADE OFF;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84962045528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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