Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges

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

Volumn 3374, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-47

  Weyns, Danny ^a   Van Dyke Parunak, H ^b   Michel, Fabien ^c   Holvoet, Tom ^a   Ferber, Jacques ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LIRMM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

WORKSHOP;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 24144470473     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32259-7_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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