Specifying protocols for multi-agent systems interaction

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Poslad, Stefan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Deployment; Multi Agent systems; Semantics; Social interaction; Specifications

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; DEPLOYMENT; HETEROGENEOUS DEVELOPMENTS; INDIVIDUAL AGENTS; SEMANTIC CONTENTS; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 36649027678     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1293731.1293735     Document Type: Article

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