Agents: Agenthood, Agent Architectures, and Agent Taxonomies

Agent-Directed Simulation and Systems Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 73-109

  Tolk, Andreas ^a   Uhrmacher, Adelinde M ^b  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acting; Agent society; Belief Desire Intention; Perceiving; Reflection; Sensors; Situated environment; Social ability; Social ability, communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885533777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527627783.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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