Multi-agent systems: Which research for which applications

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-106

  Oliveira, Eugénio ^a   Fischer, Klaus ^b   Stepankova, Olga ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0033617066     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00085-2     Document Type: Article

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