WIZER: Automated model improvement in multi-agent social-network systems

Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 255-270

  Yahja, Alex ^a   Carley, Kathleen M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84871211261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-27972-5_12     Document Type: Chapter

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