A Practitioners' Review of Industrial Agent Applications

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 389-407

  Van Dyke Parunak, H ^a  

^a ERIM International   (United States)

Author keywords

Industrial applications; Methods; Software tools; Workshop report

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034394758     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010002720057     Document Type: Review

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