A generic time management service for distributed multi-agent systems

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 229-249

  Braubach, Lars ^a   Pokahr, Alexander ^a   Lamersdorf, Winfried ^a   Krempels, Karl Heinz ^b   Woelk, Peer Oliver ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROCESS CONTROL; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FIPA-COMPLIANT AGENT; PROCESS FLOWS; TASK EXECUTION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645779906     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510500484231     Document Type: Article

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