Evaluation of properties in the transition of capability based agent organization

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-21

  Matson, Eric T ^a   Deloach, Scott A ^c   Bhatnagar, Raj ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^c Kansas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiagent systems; Organization; Properties; Reorganization; Transition

Indexed keywords

MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; ORGANIZATION; PROPERTIES; REORGANIZATION; TRANSITION;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 62449124489     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WIA-2009-0152     Document Type: Article

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