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AGENTS '01: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
ACM2001 Proceeding
Publisher:
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • New York
  • NY
  • United States
Conference:
AGENTS01: Autonomous Agents 2001 Montreal Quebec Canada
ISBN:
978-1-58113-326-4
Published:
28 May 2001
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Contributors
  • University of Augsburg
  • The University of Tulsa
  • University of Montreal
  • Clausthal University of Technology

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  1. Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents

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    Acceptance Rates

    AGENTS '01 Paper Acceptance Rate 66 of 248 submissions, 27%;
    Overall Acceptance Rate 182 of 599 submissions, 30%
    YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
    AGENTS '012486627%
    AGENTS '981805732%
    AGENTS '971715935%
    Overall59918230%