Plan, commit, execute protocol in multi-agent systems

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

Volumn 5696 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 155-164

  Kadera, Petr ^a   Tichy, Pavel ^a  

^a Rockwell Automation sro   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Agents; Cooperation; Distributed Control

Indexed keywords

AGENT COOPERATION; CHILLED WATER SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION PHASIS; COOPERATION; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; NEGOTIATION PROTOCOL;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349326313     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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