Cognitive stigmergy: Towards a framework based on agents and artifacts

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

Volumn 4389 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 124-140

  Ricci, Alessandro ^a   Omicini, Andrea ^a   Viroli, Mirko ^a   Gardelli, Luca ^a   Oliva, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE STIGMERGY; ENABLE EMERGENT COORDINATION; NONRATIONAL AGENTS; STIGMERGY;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 38049179113     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71103-2_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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