Flexible hierarchical organisation of role based agents

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 186-191

  Adam, Emmanuel ^a   Strugeon, Emmanuelle Grislin Le ^a   Mandiau, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE VALENCIENNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION FIELDS; DATA CONTROLS; DATA FLOWS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; HOLONIC; MULTI AGENTS; MULTI-AGENT ORGANIZATIONS; ROLE-BASED; WORKING MECHANISMS;

CYBERNETICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AGENTS;

EID: 64849112160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASOW.2008.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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