Designing institutional multi-agent systems

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

Volumn 4405 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 84-103

  Sierra, Carles ^a   Thangarajah, John ^b   Padgham, Lin ^b   Winikoff, Michael ^b  

^a ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AGENT ORGANIZATIONS; ELECTRONIC INSTITUTIONS; KNOWLEDGE CAPTURE; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 38049152805     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70945-9_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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