A framework for the development of multiagent architectures

IEEE Expert-Intelligent Systems and their Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 47-61

  Lejter, Moises ^a,b   Dean, Thomas ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNIX;

ABSTRACTIONS; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030406279     PISSN: 08859000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/64.546582     Document Type: Article

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