The reflective blackboard pattern: Architecting large multi-agent systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2603, Issue , 2003, Pages 73-93

  Silva, Otavio ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^a   Lucena, Carlos ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ARCHITECTURAL PATTERN; COMPUTATIONAL REFLECTION; CONTROL ACTIVITIES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES; REFLECTION PATTERNS; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURAL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842793609     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-35828-5_5     Document Type: Article

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