Structures for agent organizations

2005 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, KIMAS'05: Modeling, Exploration, and Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 215-220

  Dignum, Virginia ^a   Dignum, Frank ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MARKETING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AGENT ORGANIZATIONS; NETWORK STRUCTURE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 33745235533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/KIMAS.2005.1427083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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