A proposal of multi-agent system development framework for cooperative problem solving and its experimental evaluation

International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 34-45

  Sawamoto, Jun ^a   Tsuji, Hidekazu ^b   Koizumi, Hisao ^c  

^a IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative problem solving; Design pattern; Multi agent; Ontology

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; APPLICATIONS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

AGENT MODELS; AGENT RESEARCHES; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENTS; APPLICATION DOMAINS; APPLICATION EXAMPLES; COOPERATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING; CURRENT STATUSES; DESIGN PATTERN; DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; MULTI-AGENT; MULTI-AGENTS; NETWORK COMMUNITIES; PLANNING PROBLEMS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES; TASK MODELS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 56349136366     PISSN: 17400562     EISSN: 17400570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJHPCN.2007.015762     Document Type: Article

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