Technology diffusion: Analysing the diffusion of agent technologies

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 372-396

  McKean, Jez ^a   Shorter, Hayden ^b   Luck, Michael ^c   McBurney, Peter ^d   Willmott, Steven ^e  

^a Jazzle   (United Kingdom)

^b Aepona Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agents; Multi agent systems; Simulation models; Technology diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949094612     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-008-9052-y     Document Type: Article

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