Virtual enterprise formation with agents - An approach to implementation

Proceedings - IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'03

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 527-530

  Petersen, Sobah Abbas ^a   Rao, Jinghai ^a   Matskin, Mihhail ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT INTERACTION PROTOCOLS; FORMATION PROCESS; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; SELECTION OF PARTNERS; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

EID: 77953584561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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