Agent-Oriented Information Systems II
Subtitle: 6th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2004, Riga, Latvia, June 8, 2004 and New York, NY, USA, July 20, ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Paolo Bresciani (Editor); Paolo Giorgini (Editor); Brian Henderson-Sellers (Editor); Graham Low (Editor); Michael Winikoff (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9783540259114
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; agent-based information systems; agent-based modeling; agent-oriented information systems; agent-oriented software engineering; cooperative information systems; information agents; mobile computing; multi-agent systems; Information Storage & Retrieval; Networking - General; Congresses; Information storage and retrieval systems; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Object-oriented methods (Computer science)
First sentence: An emergent process is a process whose goal and activities to achieve that goal are unable to be specified in advance but emerge over time as knowledge gained from the activities performed earlier shapes the subsequent goal and activities.