DeCoMAS: An architecture for supplementing MAS with systemic models of decentralized agent coordination

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 104-107

  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

AGENT ACTIVITIES; AGENT COORDINATION; AGENT-BASED APPLICATIONS; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; COORDINATION ARCHITECTURE; COORDINATION MODEL; INTEGRATION APPROACH; MULTI-TIER; NON-INTRUSIVE; RESEARCH AREAS; RUNTIME MANAGEMENT; SELF-ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84856839962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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