Automated organization design for multi-agent systems

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-185

  Sims, Mark ^a   Corkill, Daniel ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi agent coordination; Multi agent organization design; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149101427     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-007-9023-8     Document Type: Article

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