Infrastructures for the environment of multiagent systems

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-60

  Viroli, Mirko ^a   Holvoet, Tom ^c   Ricci, Alessandro ^a   Schelfthout, Kurt ^c   Zambonelli, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Environment; Multiagent systems; Software infrastructures

Indexed keywords

BASIC BRICKS; ENVIRONMENT; MULTI-AGENT APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE; SYSTEM DESIGNERS;

ELECTRIC SHIP EQUIPMENT; SURVEYS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750184093     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-006-9001-6     Document Type: Article

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