Organisational change through influence

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-189

  McCallum, Mairi ^a   Vasconcelos, Wamberto W ^a   Norman, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formal specification and analysis verification; Organisational changes; Organisations; Software agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649128047     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-007-9024-7     Document Type: Article

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