Agent-based formation of virtual organisations

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 103-111

  Norman, Timothy J ^a   Preece, Alun ^a   Chalmers, Stuart ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^b   Luck, Michael ^b   Dang, Viet D ^b   Nguyen, Thuc D ^b   Deora, Vikas ^c   Shao, Jianhua ^c   Gray, W Alex ^c   Fiddian, Nick J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agents; Virtual organisations

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AGENT-BASED MODELS; INFORMATION INTERCHANGE; SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISES (SME); VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 3242696893     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2004.03.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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