Scheduling non-enforceable contracts among autonomous agents

Proceedings - 3rd IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 1998

Volumn 1998-August, Issue , 1998, Pages 86-94

  Tesch, T ^a   Aberer, K ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IPSI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

COOPERATING AGENTS; COOPERATION MECHANISM; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; INTERORGANIZATIONAL COOPERATION; SELF-INTERESTED AGENTS; STANDARDIZED COMMUNICATION; UTILITY-BASED SCHEDULING; WORKFLOW TECHNOLOGY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84867554665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COOPIS.1998.706187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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