Structural aspects of the evaluation of agent organizations

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

Volumn 4386 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 3-18

  Grossi, Davide ^a   Dignum, Frank ^a   Dignum, Virginia ^a   Dastani, Mehdi ^a   Royakkers, Làmber ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GRAPH THEORY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TOPOLOGY;

AGENT ORGANIZATIONS; AGENT SYSTEMS; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; EUROPEAN; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURING; STRUCTURAL ASPECTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 49949105246     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74459-7_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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