An agent framework for agent societies

SPLASH'11 Workshops - Compilation Proceedings of the Co-Located Workshops: DSM'11, TMC'11, AGERE'11, AOOPES'11, NEAT'11, and VMIL'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 201-212

  Usbeck, Kyle ^a   Beal, Jacob ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

agent framework; agent society; amorphous computing; emergent behavior; engineered self organization; spatial computing

Indexed keywords

AGENT FRAMEWORK; AGENT SOCIETY; AMORPHOUS COMPUTING; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; ENGINEERED SELF-ORGANIZATION; SPATIAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 84856460084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2095050.2095082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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