Coordination artifacts: A unifying abstraction for engineering environment-mediated coordination in MAS

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 433-443

  Ricci, Alessandro ^a   Viroli, Mirko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coordination Artifacts; Multi Agent System Coordination; Multi Agent System Engineering; Multi Agent System Environment

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COORDINATION ARTIFACTS; HUMAN ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 29844446797     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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