Objective versus subjective coordination in the engineering of agent systems

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

Volumn 2586, Issue , 2003, Pages 179-202

  Omicini, Andrea ^a   Ossowski, Sascha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL;

ABSTRACTIONS; COORDINATION MODELS; INTELLIGENT FASHION; SUBJECTIVE COORDINATION;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 23144449496     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36561-3_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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