A database perspective to a cooperation environment

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

Volumn 1202, Issue , 1997, Pages 19-41

  Deen, S M ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperating agents; Cooperating knowledge based systems; Cooperation architecture; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

AGENT-BASED MANUFACTURING; CO-OPERATION STRATEGY; COOPERATING AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED SERVICE; INTER-AGENT COMMUNICATIONS; MULTIUSER ENVIRONMENTS; USER FRIENDLINESS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84958047600     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-62591-7_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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