An agent infrastructure to build and evaluate multi-agent systems: The Java agent framework and multi-agent system simulator

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 1887, Issue , 2001, Pages 102-127

  Vincent, Regis ^a   Horling, Bryan ^a   Lesser, Victor ^a  

^a The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ADAPTIVE QUALITY; AGENT FRAMEWORK; AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE; COMPLETE SYSTEM; COMPONENT BASED DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE; JAVA AGENTS; MULTI AGENT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84937406535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47772-1_11     Document Type: Article

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