Compatibility between the local and social performances of multi-agent societies

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 4443-4450

  Jiang, Yichuan ^a,b   Jiang, Jiuchuan ^c   Ishida, Toru ^d  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compatibility; Coordination; Local performance; Multi agent Society; Social performance; Unification trend

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

COMPATIBILITY; COORDINATION; LOCAL PERFORMANCE; MULTI AGENT SOCIETY; SOCIAL PERFORMANCE; UNIFICATION TREND;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 58349102315     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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