Towards a unified view of the environment(s) within multi-agent systems

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 423-432

  Gouaïch, Abdelkader ^a   Michel, Fabien ^b  

^a LIRMM   (France)

^b LERI   (France)

Author keywords

Environment; MASs; Multi environments

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENT; MASS; MULTI-ENVIRONMENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 29844455730     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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