Role of obligations in multiagent coordination

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 11-38

  Barbuceanu, Mihai ^a   Gray, Tom ^b   Mankovski, Serge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Mitel Networks Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFERENCE ENGINES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

GLOBAL BUSINESS PROCESSES; MULTIAGENT COORDINATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032786059     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/088395199117478     Document Type: Article

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