Instrumenting multi-agent organisations with organisational artifacts and agents: "Giving the organisational power back to the agents"

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-400

  Hübner, Jomi F ^a   Boissier, Olivier ^a   Kitio, Rosine ^a   Ricci, Alessandro ^b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artifacts; MAS organisations; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952423128     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-009-9084-y     Document Type: Article

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