A vision for multi-agent systems programming

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3067, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-17

  Decker, Keith ^a  

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUEUEING THEORY; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; GRADUATE STUDENTS; MAS DEVELOPMENT; MULTI AGENT; MULTI-AGENT APPLICATIONS; PRACTICAL USE; UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE; AGENT PROGRAMMING; APPLICATION PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGENT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 23144447414     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25936-7_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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