The MACODO organization model for context-driven dynamic agent organizations

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Weyns, Danny ^a   Haesevoets, Robrecht ^a   Helleboogh, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; BELONG TO; DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED EXECUTION; DYNAMIC AGENTS; DYNAMIC ORGANIZATION; DYNAMIC REORGANIZATION; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT; MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE; MIDDLEWARE PLATFORMS; MOBILE MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; ORGANIZATION MODEL; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TRAFFIC MONITORING;

ABSTRACTING; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; MIDDLEWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 77949776347     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1867713.1867717     Document Type: Article

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