Coordinating tasks in agent organizations or: Can we ask you to read this paper?

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

Volumn 4386 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 32-47

  Dignum, Virginia ^a   Dignum, Frank ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

AGENT ORGANIZATIONS; AGENT SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NEW FORMS; POWER LINKS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 49949090677     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74459-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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