On the modeling, refinement and integration of decentralized agent coordination: A case study on dissemination processes in networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6090 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 251-274

  Sudeikat, Jan ^a,b   Renz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FEATURES; AGENT COORDINATION; COORDINATION PROCESS; DECENTRALIZED COORDINATION; DESIGN ACTIVITY; DESIGN CRITERION; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE SYSTEM; FEEDBACK LOOP STRUCTURE; IN-NETWORK; MODELING APPROACH; PROGRAMMING MODELS; REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF ORGANIZING PROCESS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEMATIC DESIGNS; SYSTEMATIC INTEGRATION;

DESIGN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955436042     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14412-7_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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