Coordination and agreement in multi-agent systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5180 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 16-23

  Ossowski, Sascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL AGENTS; COORDINATION MODEL; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; KEY ELEMENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 57849122577     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85834-8_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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