Agent role-based collaboration and coordination: A survey about existing approaches

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

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 5473-5478

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agents; Interactions; Roles

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIONS; ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL (RBAC); ROLES; USER INTERACTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 15744400694     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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