An agents' definition framework and a methodology for deriving agents' taxonomies

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2821, Issue , 2003, Pages 618-632

  Höppner, Silke ^a  

^a Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STANDARDIZATION; TAXONOMIES;

PSEUDO-AGENTS; SOFTWARE PROGRAMS; SYSTEMATICS; TAXONOMIES; NEW APPROACHES; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 9444222465     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39451-8_45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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