A reference architecture for situated multiagent systems

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

Volumn 4389 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-40

  Weyns, Danny ^a   Holvoet, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACKET NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS; INDUSTRIAL AGV TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 38049185087     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71103-2_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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