Awareness in collaborative ubiquitous environments: The Multilayered Multi-Agent Situated System approach

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Locatelli, Marco P ^a   Vizzari, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context awareness; MAS environments

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE UBIQUITOUS ENVIRONMENTS (CUES); CONTEXT AWARENESS; LOGICAL CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; SYSTEM MODELS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 36649024816     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1293731.1293733     Document Type: Article

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