Designing multi-agent systems around an extensible communication abstraction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1760, Issue , 1999, Pages 90-102

  Denti, Enrico ^a   Omicini, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coordination model; Extensible communication abstraction; Multi agent systems; Transactions

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATION THEORY; COORDINATION REACTIONS; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES;

COMMUNICATION ABSTRACTION; COMMUNICATION DEVICE; COMPUTATIONAL PROPERTIES; COORDINATION ARCHITECTURE; COORDINATION MODEL; LOGIC BASED SPECIFICATION; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; TRANSACTIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84942787374     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46581-2_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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