A multi-criteria protocol for multi-agent negotiations

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3025, Issue , 2004, Pages 103-111

  Matsatsinis, Nikolaos F ^a   Delias, Pavlos ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

GROUP DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (GDSS); NEGOTIATION PROTOCOLS; NEGOTIATION SUPPORT SYSTEMS (NSS); AREA OF INTEREST; CONFLICTS OF INTEREST; MULTIAGENT NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; NEGOTIATION PROTOCOL; NEGOTIATION SUPPORT SYSTEM; OPTIMAL DECISIONS; STRUCTURED MODEL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 9444219691     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24674-9_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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