Geospatial agents, agents everywhere...

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 483-506

  Sengupta, Raja ^a   Sieber, Renée ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent based; Artificial life agents; Complexity theory; Intelligent agents; Multi agent systems; Software agents

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

AGENT BASED; ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENT; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; ARTIFICIAL LIFE AGENT; COMPLEXITY THEORY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; GEOSPATIAL AGENTS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; MULTI-AGENT SOFTWARES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GIS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34548039268     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01057.x     Document Type: Review

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