An exploratory review of software agents

Proceedings - International Symposium on Information Technology 2008, ITSim

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ahmad, Azhana ^a   Ahmad, Mohd Sharifuddin ^a   Yusoff, Mohd Zaliman Mohd ^a  

^a Universiti Tenaga Nasional

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES; DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING; PARALLEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES; SOFTWARE AGENT TECHNOLOGIES;

AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 57349181490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSIM.2008.4632000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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