Towards an integral approach of organizations in multi-agent systems

Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-75

  Ferber, Jacques ^a   Stratulat, Tiberiu ^a   Tranier, John ^a,b  

^a LIRMM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

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EID: 84863885856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-256-5.ch003     Document Type: Chapter

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