Environments in multiagent systems

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-141

  Weyns, Danny ^a   Schumacher, Michael ^b   Ricci, Alessandro ^c   Viroli, Mirko ^c   Holvoet, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR-BASED AGENT SYSTEMS; FIRST-ORDER ABSTRACTION; REAL-WORLD MULTIAGENT SYSTEM;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646545370     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888905000457     Document Type: Review

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