Evaluating the FIPA standards and its role in achieving cooperation in multi-agent systems

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Charlton, P ^a   Cattoni, R ^b   Potrich, A ^b   Mamdani, E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION; DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING; EXPLICIT MODELING; FIPA STANDARDS; MAS ARCHITECTURE; MULTI-AGENT APPLICATIONS; MULTI-AGENT SOFTWARES; PHYSICAL AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85046270118     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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