The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 29-48

  Sycara, Katia ^a   Paolucci, Massimo ^a   Van Velsen, Martin ^a   Giampapa, Joseph ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent; Architecture; Infrastructure; MAS; Multi Agent System

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY; PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT; SINGLE AGENTS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTEROPERABILITY; LOGISTICS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; REUSABILITY; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142222295     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024172719965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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