Introducing the concept of customizable structured spaces for agent coordination in the production automation domain

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 451-458

  Kühn, Eva ^a   Mordinyi, Richard ^a   Keszthelyi, László ^a   Schreiber, Christian ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coordination; Coordination pattern; Linda; Multi agent systems; Production automation; Tuple spaces

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONTAINERS; DIGITAL STORAGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COORDINATION; COORDINATION PATTERNS; LINDA; PRODUCTION AUTOMATION; TUPLE SPACE;

COORDINATION REACTIONS;

EID: 84899833792     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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