A-teams: An agent architecture for optimization and decision-support

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

Volumn 1555, Issue , 1999, Pages 261-276

  Rachlin, John ^a   Goodwin, Richard ^a   Murthy, Sesh ^a   Akkiraju, Rama ^a   Wu, Fred ^a   Kumaran, Santhosh ^b   Das, Raja ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; ASYNCHRONOUS TEAMS; CLASS LIBRARIES; CO-OPERATIVE BEHAVIORS; DECISION SUPPORT APPLICATIONS; DECISION SUPPORTS; REAL PROBLEMS; REAL-WORLD OPTIMIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84961386396     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49057-4_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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