A design taxonomy of multi-agent interactions

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

Volumn 2935, Issue , 2003, Pages 123-137

  Parunak, H Van Dyke ^a   Brueckner, Sven ^a   Fleischer, Mitch ^a   Odell, James ^b  

^a Altarum   (United States)

^b James Odell Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TAXONOMIES;

AGENT INTERACTION; DESIGN TAXONOMY; JOINT INFORMATION; MULTI-AGENT INTERACTION; STOCHASTICITY; USER REQUIREMENTS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 84947236575     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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