Roles in agent-oriented modeling

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 281-302

  Depke, Ralph ^a   Heckel, Reiko ^a   Küster, Jochen Malte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent oriented modeling; Agents; Graph transformation; Roles; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA REDUCTION; GRAPH THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; REUSABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AGENT-ORIENTED MODELING; GRAPH TRANSFORMATION; ROLES; UML;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0006035953     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194001000529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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