Multi-agent support for distributed engineering design

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

Volumn 3533 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 155-164

  Chira, Camelia ^a   Chira, Ovidiu ^a   Roche, Thomas ^a  

^a Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; SEMANTICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DISTRIBUTED ENGINEERING DESIGN; GLOBAL OPTIMA IN DESIGN; HETEROGENEOUS SKILLS; MULTIPLE DESIGN TEAMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 26944471132     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11504894_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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