Organisational abstractions for the analysis and design of multi-agent systems

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

Volumn 1957 LNCS, Issue , 2001, Pages 235-251

  Zambonelli, Franco ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^b   Wooldridge, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT ROLES; AGENT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE; ROLE MODEL; ORGANISATIONAL;

ABSTRACTING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350628639     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44564-1_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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