Using dynamic electronic institutions to enable digital business ecosystems

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

Volumn 4386 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 259-273

  Muntaner Perich, Eduard ^a   De La Rosa Esteva, Josep Lluís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coalition formation; Digital business ecosystems; Electronic contracts; Electronic institutions; Normative systems; Open agent systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ECOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TECHNOLOGY;

AGENT SYSTEMS; COALITION FORMATION; DIFFERENT SERVICES; DIGITAL BUSINESS; DIGITAL BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS; DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS; ELECTRONIC INSTITUTIONS; EUROPEAN; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; MULTI-AGENT APPROACH; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NEW FORMS; NORMATIVE SYSTEMS; OPEN AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 49949115580     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74459-7_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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