Coordination tools for mas development and deployment

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 16, Issue 9-10, 2002, Pages 721-752

  Denti, E ^a   Omicini, A ^b   Ricci, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

AGENT INTERACTION PROTOCOL; COORDINATION POLICIES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036820240     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510290030462     Document Type: Article

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