On how to conduct experimental research with self-motivated agents

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

Volumn 2934, Issue , 2003, Pages 31-47

  Antunes, Luis ^a   Coelho, Helder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; DESIGN ISSUES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; VALUE-BASED MODELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 35048865306     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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