Hermes: Designing flexible and robust agent interactions

Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 105-139

  Cheong, Christopher ^a   Winikoff, Michael ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 70350232616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch005     Document Type: Chapter

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