Contract enactment in virtual organizations: A commitment-based approach

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 722-727

  Udupi, Yathiraj B ^a   Singh, Munindar P ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONTRACTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; HETEROGENEOUS MEMBERS; INFORMATION RESOURCES; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION (VO);

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750708550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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