How to build the best macroscopic description of your multi-agent system?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7879 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 157-169

  Lamarche Perrin, Robin ^a,b   Demazeau, Yves ^a,c   Vincent, Jean Marc ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

agent aggregation; geographical and news analysis; information theory; Large scale multi agent systems; macroscopic description

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INFORMATION THEORY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; QUALITY CONTROL;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; GEOGRAPHICAL AND NEWS ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION; MACROSCOPIC LEVELS; MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION; SPATIAL AGGREGATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84887058818     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38073-0_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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