A coordination language for collective agent based systems: GroupLog

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 189-195

  Barbosa, Fernanda ^a   Cunha, José C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS ENTITIES; COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACE; COORDINATION LANGUAGE; EXECUTION UNITS; INFORMAL PRESENTATION; LOGICAL RULES; MODEL AGENTS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84897389302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/335603.335741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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