Self-organization in multi agent systems: A middleware approach

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

Volumn 2977, Issue , 2004, Pages 233-248

  Mamei, Marco ^a   Zambonelli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; ROBOTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WEBSITES;

AD-HOC NETWORK; PEER-TO-PEER (P2P); SELF-ORGANIZATION; TUPLES ON THE AIR (TOTA);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 23144453889     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24701-2_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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