Rights and Argumentation in Open Multi-Agent Systems

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-24

  Alonso, Eduardo ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Coordination; Multi agent systems; Rights; Social action

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPEN SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY (RCT);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0942266542     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AIRE.0000007389.67810.17     Document Type: Article

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