Operating instructions for intelligent agent coordination

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-69

  Viroli, Mirko ^a   Ricci, Alessandro ^a   Omicini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES (ACL); BDI-LIKE AGENTS; COORDINATION ARTIFACTS; COORDINATION TASKS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 33745864838     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888906000774     Document Type: Review

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