Separating domain and coordination in multi-agent organizational design and instantiation

Proceedings - IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. IAT 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 155-161

  Sims, Mark ^a   Corkill, Daniel ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT COORDINATION; AUTOMATED TEMPLATE EXPANSION; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS; MULTI AGENT ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 16244365512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAT.2004.1342938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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