Towards interaction protocol operations for large multi-agent systems

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2699, Issue , 2003, Pages 79-91

  Peña, Joaquín ^a   Corchuelo, Rafael ^a   Arjona, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

HIGH-LEVEL ABSTRACTION; INTER-ACTION PROTOCOLS; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; PROTOCOL DESCRIPTION; PROTOCOL LEVEL; ROLE MODEL; ROLE-BASED; TOP DOWN APPROACHES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ABSTRACTIONS; INTERACTION PROTOCOLS; MULTI-ROLE INTERACTION; PROTOCOL DESCRIPTION;

EID: 7044250722     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45133-4_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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