Organizations as socially constructed agents in the agent oriented paradigm

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3451 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-13

  Boella, Guido ^a   Van Der Torre, Leendert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

AGENT METAPHORS; AGENT ORIENTED PARADIGM; NORMATIVE SYSTEMS; SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 26844525185     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11423355_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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