Extracting social laws from unilateral binary constraint relation topologies in multiagent systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 2004-2012

  Jiang, Yichuan ^a,b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agent interaction; Multiagent coordination; Social constraint; Social law; Social strategy

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

AGENT INTERACTION; MULTIAGENT COORDINATION; SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS; SOCIAL LAWS; SOCIAL STRATEGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 37349075928     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.02.039     Document Type: Article

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