Compositional specification and reuse of a generic cooperative agent model

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 171-207

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

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent; Compositional; Cooperation; Generic model; Reuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034414332     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843000000120     Document Type: Article

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