Commitments among autonomous agents in information-rich environments

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

Volumn 1237, Issue , 1997, Pages 141-155

  Singh, Munindar P ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SHIP EQUIPMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; INFORMATION-RICH ENVIRONMENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; SOCIAL CONCEPTS; SOCIAL POLICY; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84958752454     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63077-5_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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