A coordination framework for Cooperative Information Gathering

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-79

  Bouslimi, Issam ^a   Hanachi, Chihab ^b   Tout, Hassan ^b   Ghédira, Khaled ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE CAPITOLE   (France)

Author keywords

And Or Graph; CIG; Cooperative information gathering; Engineering coordination; MAS; Multi agent systems; Petri Nets

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149117234     PISSN: 17550386     EISSN: 17550394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2008.020820     Document Type: Article

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