Systems of exchange values as tools for multi-agent organizations

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-40

  Dimuro, Gracaliz P ^a   Costa, A C Rocha ^a,b   Palazzo, Luiz A M ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Equilibrium Supervisor; Exchange Values; Exchange Values Based Social Organization; Qualitative Markov Decision Process; Social Equilibrium; Social Exchanges

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MULTI-AGENT ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL EXCHANGE; SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL RELATIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905400603     PISSN: 01046500     EISSN: 16784804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03192369     Document Type: Article

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