Analysis and design of physical and social contexts in multi-agent systems

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

Volumn 3914 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 91-108

  Klein, Florian ^a   Giese, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MODEL-DRIVEN DESIGN;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 37149048653     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11738817_6     Document Type: Article

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