Agent clustering based on semantic negotiation

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Garruzzo, Salvatore ^a   Rosaci, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ontologies; Open multiagent systems; Semantic negotiation

Indexed keywords

OPEN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC NEGOTIATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 44649163814     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1352789.1352792     Document Type: Article

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