The benefits of environment adaptive organisations for agent coordination and network routing problems

Proceedings - 4th International Conference on MultiAgent Systems, ICMAS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 333-340

  Willmott, S ^a   Faltings, B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

AGENT COORDINATION; NETWORK STATE; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE; QUALITY OF SERVICE ROUTING; ROUTING PERFORMANCE; ROUTING PROBLEMS; TASK ENVIRONMENT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842497837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMAS.2000.858471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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