Organisational artifacts and agents for open multi-agent organisations: "giving the power back to the agents"

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

Volumn 4870 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 171-186

  Kitio, Rosine ^a   Boissier, Olivier ^a   Hübner, Jomi Fred ^a,b   Ricci, Alessandro ^c  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b REGIONAL UNIVERSITY OF BLUMENAU   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

MAS organisations; Multi agent Systems; Open systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

CLASS ABSTRACTION; FORMAL MODEL; MAS ORGANISATIONS; META MODEL; MULTI AGENT; OPEN MAS; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANISATIONAL ASPECTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 66149172688     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79003-7_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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