GEAMAS: A Generic Architecture for Agent-Oriented Simulations of Complex Processes

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-267

  Marcenac, Pierre ^a   Giroux, Sylvain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^b CIRANO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex systems modelling; Intelligent distributed processing; Multiagent systems; Simulation applications; Smalltalk

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

AGENT ORIENTED SIMULATIONS; COMPLEX PROCESSES; GENERIC ARCHITECTURE; INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0032070886     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008220501261     Document Type: Article

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