Integrating objective & subjective coordination in multi-agent systems

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 449-455

  Omicini, Andrea ^a   Ricci, Alessandro ^a   Viroli, Mirko ^a   Rimassa, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b FRAMeTech SRL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTEROPERABILITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COORDINATION MEDIUM; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; OBJECTIVE COORDINATION; SUBJECTIVE COORDINATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 2442453665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/967900.967995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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