Organisational adaptation of multi-agent systems in a peer-to-peer scenario

Computing (Vienna/New York)

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-215

  Campos, Jordi ^a   Esteva, Marc ^b   López Sánchez, Maite ^a   Morales, Javier ^a   Salamó, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation; CBR; Coordination; MAS; Norms; Organisation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CBR; COORDINATION; MAS; NORMS; ORGANISATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 79751470113     PISSN: 0010485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00607-010-0141-9     Document Type: Article

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