A customizable coordination service for autonomous agents

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

Volumn 1365, Issue , 1998, Pages 93-106

  Singh, Munindar P ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CUSTOMIZABLE; DISTRIBUTED IMPLEMENTATION; INTERNAL DESIGN;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84961343813     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0026752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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