Naming the Unnamable: Socionics or the Sociological Turn of/to Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 155-186

  Malsch, Thomas ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 0035596174     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011446410198     Document Type: Article

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