A survey of multi-agent organizational paradigms

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 281-316

  Horling, Bryan ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKETING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

FEDERATIONS; MULTI-AGENT ORGANIZATIONAL PARADIGMS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844487453     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888905000317     Document Type: Article

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