Modelling agent societies: Co-ordination frameworks and institutions

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

Volumn 2258 LNAI, Issue , 2001, Pages 191-204

  Dignum, Virginia ^a,b   Dignum, Frank ^b  

^a Achmea ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent societies; Co ordination; Institutions; Virtual organisations

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

AGENT SOCIETY; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; COORDINATION FRAMEWORKS; GLOBAL SYSTEMS; INTERACTION PATTERN; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANISATIONAL SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 83255183831     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45329-6_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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