L.I.A.R.: Achieving social control in open and decentralized multiagent systems

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 723-768

  Vercouter, Laurent ^a   Muller, Guillaume ^b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

AGENT INTERACTION; CENTRALISED; CONTROL AGENT; CONTROL APPROACH; CONTROL SET; CRYPTOGRAPHIC SECURITY; DECENTRALISED; INTERNAL FUNCTIONING; NON-INTRUSIVE; SOCIAL CONTROL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956353154     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839514.2010.499502     Document Type: Article

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