An individualistic approach to social action in multi-agent systems

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 519-530

  Alonso, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative problem solving; Multi agent systems; Task distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012230546     PISSN: 0952813X     EISSN: 13623079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095281399146391     Document Type: Article

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