Foresight-based pricing algorithms in an economy of software agents

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information and Computation Economies, ICE 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 37-44

  Tesauro, Gerald J ^a   Kephart, Jeffrey O ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMICS; GAME THEORY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

DEPTH SEARCH; HEURISTIC APPROACH; MARKOV GAMES; OPPONENT MODELS; PRICING ALGORITHM; RECURSIONS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; TWO-PLAYER GAMES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 85010804349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/288994.289002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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