FORM - A sociologically founded framework for designing self-organization of multiagent systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2934, Issue , 2003, Pages 156-175

  Schillo, Michael ^a   Fischer, Klaus ^a   Fley, Bettina ^b   Florian, Michael ^b   Hillebrandt, Frank ^b   Spresny, Daniela ^b  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; FIELD THEORY; ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL ENTITIES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES; TASK DELEGATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 35048836601     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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