Towards a taxonomy of agents and multi-agent systems

Agent Directed Simulation Symposium, ADS 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Spring Simulation Multiconference, SpringSim 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 11-18

  Moya, Lisa Jean ^a   Tolk, Andreas ^b  

^a WernerAnderson Inc   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent; Architecture; Multi agent system; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; ARCHITECTURE; TAXONOMIES;

COOPERATIVE MECHANISMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85020457084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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