Exception representation and management in open multi-agent systems

Information Sciences

Volumn 179, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2555-2561

  Shah, Nazaraf ^a   Iqbal, Rahat ^b   James, Anne ^b   Iqbal, Kashif ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Health and Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^c SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Exception; Heuristic Classification; Multi agent systems; Ontology

Indexed keywords

AGENT FRAMEWORKS; BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; EXCEPTION; FAULT-TOLERANCE CAPABILITIES; HEURISTIC CLASSIFICATION; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACHES; OPEN MAS; OPEN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS; UNIFORM FRAMEWORKS;

FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION THEORY; ONTOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SILICATE MINERALS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 67349182109     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.01.034     Document Type: Article

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