DAI betwixt and between: From “intelligent agents” to open systems science

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1409-1419

  Hewitt, Carl ^a   Inman, Jeff ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - DISTRIBUTED; SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS - LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

CONCURRENCY; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OPEN SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0026259443     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.135685     Document Type: Article

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