Toward the application of self organizing systems to agent infrastructures - A critical review and prospects

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

Volumn 2977, Issue , 2004, Pages 36-52

  Thompson, Simon ^a  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SEMANTICS; STANDARDS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AGENT IMPLEMENTATION; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; SELF ORGANIZING SYSTEMS; SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 23144461451     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24701-2_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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