The link between autonomy and organisation in multiagent systems

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

Volumn 3131, Issue , 2003, Pages 81-90

  Schillo, Michael ^a   Fischer, Klaus ^a   Siekmann, Jörg ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; JOB ANALYSIS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CUSTOMER AGENT; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; MARKET-BASED APPROACH; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; TASK ASSIGNMENT; ORGANISATIONAL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATION; CUSTOMER AGENTS; PROVIDER AGENTS; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

EID: 84948964745     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45185-3_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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