Environment-based coordination through coordination artifacts

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

Volumn 3374, Issue , 2005, Pages 190-214

  Ricci, Alessandro ^a   Viroli, Mirko ^a   Omicini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COOPERATIVE WORK; COORDINATION ARTIFACTS; ENVIRONMENT-BASED COORDINATION; MAS APPLICATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 24144449939     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32259-7_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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