Toward systemic MAS development: Enforcing decentralized self-organization by composition and refinement of archetype dynamics

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

Volumn 5049 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 39-57

  Sudeikat, Jan ^a,b   Renz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DESIGN; DYNAMICS;

DECENTRALIZED COORDINATION; MAS DEVELOPMENT; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 50949133400     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85029-8_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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