The governing environment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3830 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 88-104

  Schumacher, Michael ^a   Ossowski, Sascha ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AGENT SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; OBJECTIVE COORDINATION; RUNNING AGENT PROGRAMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745451298     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11678809_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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