Modeling cooperation in multi-agent communities

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 171-190

  Buccafurri, F ^a   Rosaci, D ^a   Sarne G M L ^a   Palopoli, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Agent cooperation; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 3342896759     PISSN: 13890417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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