Collaboration rules for autonomous software agents

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 269-278

  Talukdar, Sarosh N ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Collaboration; Multi agent systems; Organizations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AUTONOMOUS SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032637730     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-9236(98)00070-0     Document Type: Article

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