Structural evaluation of agent organizations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1110-1112

  Grossi, Davide ^a   Dignum, Virginia ^a   Dignum, Frank ^a   Dastani, Mehdi ^a   Royakkers, Lambèr ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Graph theory; Multi agent organizations; Social structure

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

FLEXIBILITY; MULTI AGENT ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 34247204846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1160633.1160833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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