A Negotiation Platform for Cooperating Multi-agent Systems

Concurrent Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 179-187

  Polat, Faruk ^a   Shekhar, Shashi ^a   Guvenir, H Altay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

conflict detection and resolution; conflict knowledge; distributed artificial intelligence; open information system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965539827     PISSN: 1063293X     EISSN: 15312003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X9300100306     Document Type: Article

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