The environment: An essential abstraction for managing complexity in MAS-based manufacturing control

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

Volumn 3830 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 205-217

  Valckenaers, Paul ^a   Holvoet, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ABSTRACTION; MAS-BASED MANUFACTURING CONTROL; STIGMERGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745453291     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11678809_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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