Farm: A scalable environment for multi-agent development and evaluation

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

Volumn 2940, Issue , 2004, Pages 225-242

  Horling, Bryan ^a   Mailler, Roger ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT-BASED ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS; LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT; RUNNING TIME; TECHNICAL DETAILS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 35048865401     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24625-1_13     Document Type: Article

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