"Give agents their artifacts: The A&A approach for engineering working environments in MAS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 613-615

  Ricci, Alessandro ^a   Viroli, Mirko ^a   Omicini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artifact based environments; Multi agent system infrastructures; Programming multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORIES; AGENT ABSTRACTIONS; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGS; ARTIFACT-BASED ENVIRONMENTS; CO-OPERATIVE WORKINGS; COGNITIVE AGENTS; COMPLEX TASKS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONCRETE ARCHITECTURES; COORDINATION ARTIFACTS; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES; DISTRIBUTED COGNITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; HUMAN SCIENCE; HUMAN SOCIETIES; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURES; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; PROGRAMMING MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; WORKING ENVIRONMENTS;

ABSTRACTING; ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; COORDINATION REACTIONS; ENGINEERING; FUZZY CLUSTERING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 60349099652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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