Extending applications using reflective assistant agents

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 587-594

  Di Stefano, Antonella ^a   Pappalardo, Giuseppe ^a   Santoro, Corrado ^a   Tramontana, Emiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent technology; Component based software development; Computational reflection; Electronic commerce; Internet and web based systems; Object oriented technology; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL REFLECTION; ELECTRONIC SHOPPING; REFLECTIVE ASSISTANT AGENTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036386986     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CMPSAC.2002.1045068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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