Co-ordination in software agent systems

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 79-88

  Nwana, H S ^a,b   Lee, L ^c   Jennings, N R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Shell Research Laboratories

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE AGENT COORDINATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0030262614     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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