The role of roles in designing effective agent organizations

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

Volumn 2603, Issue , 2003, Pages 27-38

  Odell, James J ^a   Parunak, H Van Dyke ^b   Fleischer, Mitchell ^b  

^a James Odell Associates   (United States)

^b Altarum   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

AGENT ORGANIZATION; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL FORCES; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEM;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 35248836569     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-35828-5_2     Document Type: Article

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