A toolset for architecture independent, reconflgurable, multi-agent systems

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

Volumn 1219, Issue , 1997, Pages 210-221

  Williams, Marcus J ^a   Bendiab, A T ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent programming; Multi agent systems; Re configuration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MOBILE AGENTS; NETWORK SECURITY; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT PROGRAMMING; CONFIGURATION LANGUAGES; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; LONG LIFETIME; RE-CONFIGURATIONS; TOOLSETS; TWO AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84958962561     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-62803-7_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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