The evolution of the contract net protocol

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

Volumn 2118, Issue , 2001, Pages 257-264

  Xu, Lai ^a   Weigand, Hans ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

AGENT SOCIETY; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS; DECISION PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED ARCHITECTURE; MARGINAL COSTS; TRADING PARTNERS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84974696090     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47714-4_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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