Analysis and design of a multi-agent system for simulating a crisis response organization

EOMAS 2009 - International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, Held in Conjunction with CAiSE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Gonzalez, Rafael A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coordination; crisis response; multi agent systems; simulation

Indexed keywords

AGENT FRAMEWORK; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; CRISIS RESPONSE; EMERGENCY SCENARIO; EMERGENT COORDINATION; GAIA METHODOLOGY; SIMULATION MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACHINE DESIGN; SILICATE MINERALS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77954577297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1750405.1750413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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