Supporting agent-oriented modelling with UML

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 605-618

  Bergenti, Federico ^a   Poggi, Agostino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent modeling; Agent oriented notation; FIPA; UML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; INTEROPERABILITY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; XML;

AGENT ORIENTED MODELLING; AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036967112     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194002001086     Document Type: Article

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