Distributed belief revision vs. Belief revision in a multi-agent environment: First results of a simulation experiment

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

Volumn 1237, Issue , 1997, Pages 46-62

  Dragoni, Aldo Franco ^a   Giorgini, Paolo ^a   Baffetti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

BELIEF REVISION; CENTRALISED; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SOURCES; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MULTI-AGENT ENVIRONMENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84958739826     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63077-5_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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