Cognition, sociability, and constraints

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

Volumn 2103, Issue , 2001, Pages 217-235

  Weiß, Gerhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORKS; CONSTRAINT HANDLING; EMERGENT PROPERTY; FLEXIBLE AGENTS; GLOBAL CONSTRAINTS; INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745831839     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44568-4_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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