Cognitive communication in a multi-agent system for distributed process planning

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 99-107

  López Ortega, Omar ^a   López Morales, Virgilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cognitive content; Communication modelling; Distributed process planning; Multi Agent Systems (MAS)

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL;

COGNITIVE CONTENT; COMMUNICATION MODELING; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PROCESS PLANNING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646419956     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2006.010086     Document Type: Article

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