The ACORN multi-agent system

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-86

  Marsh, Stephen ^a   Ghorbani, Ali A ^b   Bhavsar, Virendra C ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Community based information handling; e Commerce; Keyphrase matching; Mobile agents; Multi agent architecture; Multi agent information architectures

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ROUTERS;

COMMUNITY BASED INFORMATION HANDLING; KEYPHRASE MATCHING; MOBILE AGENTS; MULTI AGENT INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942618273     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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