Problem-solving methods and cooperative information agents

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 329-354

  Gomez, Mario ^a   Plaza, Enric ^a   Abasolo, Chema ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTEROPERABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SET THEORY; SYNTACTICS; WEBSITES;

AGENT CAPABILITY DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES (ACDL); COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036741006     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0218843002000625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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