Infrastructure for engineering cooperative agents

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 681-711

  Yuan, Soe Tsyr ^a   Wu, Zeng Lung ^a  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; GRAPHIC METHODS; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

AGENT COOPERATION KNOWLEDGE; BOTTOM UP DESIGN INFRASTRUCTURE; ENGINEERING COOPERATIVE AGENTS; GRAPHICAL ASSEMBLY PANEL; VIRTUAL SUPPLY CHAIN;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034470483     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0218-1940(00)00037-7     Document Type: Article

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