Institutions in the OPAL multi-agent system

Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 191-207

  Nowostawski, Mariusz ^a   Purvis, Martin ^a   De Oliveira, Marcos ^a   Cranefield, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY; OPAL; ROBUST ORGANIZATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745120481     PISSN: 10641246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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