Rethinking agent roles: Extending the role definition in the BRAIN framework

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 5455-5460

  Cabri, Giacomo ^a   Ferrari, Luca ^a   Leonardi, Letizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent interactions; Evolution; Roles

Indexed keywords

AGENT INTERACTIONS; EVOLUTION; ROLES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 15744362017     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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