Developing agent-based organizational models for crisis management

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1335-1341

  Quillinan, Thomas B ^a   Brazier, Frances ^a   Aldewereld, Huib ^b   Dignum, Frank ^b   Dignum, Virginia ^b   Penserini, Loris ^b   Wijngaards, Niek ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c D CIS Lab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agentscape; Alive; Crisis management; Multiagent systems; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENTSCAPE; ALIVE; COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM MODEL; ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84899828621     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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