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Argente Villaplana, E.; Botti Navarro, VJ.; Carrascosa Casamayor, C.; Giret Boggino, AS.; Julian Inglada, VJ.; Rebollo Pedruelo, M. (2011). An abstract architecture for virtual organizations: The THOMAS approach. Knowledge and Information Systems. 29(2):379-403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-010-0349-1

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Title: An abstract architecture for virtual organizations: The THOMAS approach
Author: Argente Villaplana, Estefanía Botti Navarro, Vicente Juan Carrascosa Casamayor, Carlos Giret Boggino, Adriana Susana Julian Inglada, Vicente Javier Rebollo Pedruelo, Miguel
UPV Unit: Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación - Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació
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Today, the need for architectures and computational models for large-scale open multi-agent systems is considered to be a key issue for the success of agent technology in real-world scenarios. This paper analyzes the ...[+]
Subjects: Multi-agent systems , Virtual organizations , Agent platforms , Agent infrastructures
Copyrigths: Cerrado
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Knowledge and Information Systems. (issn: 0219-1377 )
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-010-0349-1
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Springer Verlag (Germany)
Publisher version: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10115-010-0349-1
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MEC//CSD2007-00022/ES/Agreement Technologies/ /
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/GVA//PROMETEO08%2F2008%2F051/ES/Advances on Agreement Technologies for Computational Entities (atforce)/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//TIN2008-04446/ES/UNA PLATAFORMA PARA SISTEMAS MULTIAGENTE ABIERTOS/ /
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//TIN2009-13839-C03-01/ES/Organizaciones Virtuales Adaptativas: Arquitecturas Y Metodos De Desarrollo/
Thanks:
This work is supported by the Spanish government grants CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00022, TIN2008-04446 and TIN2009-13839-C03-01 and by the GVA project PROMETEO 2008/051.
Type: Artículo

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