Using quantitative models to search for appropriate organizational designs

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 95-149

  Horling, Bryan ^a,b   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

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EID: 39149136585     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-007-9020-y     Document Type: Article

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