The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 285-312

  Wooldridge, Michael ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^b   Kinny, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent oriented; Analysis and design; Methodologies; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034422338     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010071910869     Document Type: Article

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