The ZEUS agent building tool-kit

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 60-68

  Collis, J C ^a,b,c   Ndumu, D T ^d,e,f,g,h   Nwana, H S ^c,g,i,j,k,l   Lee, L C ^{c,g,h,k,m,n,o}  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Open University

^f UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^g BT Laboratories (BTL)

^h Intelligent Systems Research Group

ⁱ QUEENS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^j ABW ZEUS ^*

^k British Psychology Society   (United Kingdom)

^l ART's Future Technologies Group

^m UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Croucher Foundation   (Hong Kong)

^o ZEUS Project

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATIVE AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ZEUS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032121071     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009673714049     Document Type: Article

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