Platforms for agent-oriented software engineering

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 480-488

  Nowostawski, M ^a   Bush, G ^a   Purvis, M ^a   Cranefield, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Computer architecture; Distributed information systems; Hardware; Information science; Object oriented modeling; Programming; Software architecture; Software engineering; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; AGENT SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0010601709     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2000.896737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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