Task dynamics in self-organising task groups: Expertise, motivational, and performance differences of specialists and generalists

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-94

  Zoethout, Kees ^a   Jager, Wander ^a   Molleman, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multi agents system; Psychological theory; Self organisation; Specialisation generalisation; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 37549037052     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-007-9022-9     Document Type: Article

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