A methodological perspective on engineering of agent societies

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

Volumn 2203, Issue , 2001, Pages 10-24

  Fredriksson, Martin ^a   Gustavsson, Rune ^a  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; EMBEDDED INTERNET; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; GENERAL SYSTEM THEORY; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; NATURAL SYSTEMS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84943169253     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45584-1_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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