Multi agent enterprise modeling

Operations Research/ Computer Science Interfaces Series

Volumn 16, Issue , 2002, Pages 169-185

  Sikora, Riyaz ^a   Shaw, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based infonnation systems; Coordination mechanisms; Coordination theory; Enterprise integration; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888811654     PISSN: 1387666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0893-9     Document Type: Article

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