Compositional design and reuse of a generic agent model

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 491-538

  Brazier, Frances M T ^a   Jonker, Catholijn M ^a   Treur, Jan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

GENERIC AGENT MODELS (GAM);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0034191574     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/088395100403397     Document Type: Article

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