Agent roles, qua individuals and the Counting Problem

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

Volumn 3914 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 143-160

  Guizzardi, Giancarlo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ONTOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING LANGUAGES; COUNTING PROBLEM; QUA INDIVIDUALS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 37148999947     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11738817_9     Document Type: Article

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