Comparing environments for developing software agents

AI Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 169-197

  Eiter, Thomas ^a   Mascardi, Viviana ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent frameworks; Classification; Multi agent systems; Software agent development; Tools

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE; AGENT FRAMEWORKS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT KITS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036996118     PISSN: 09217126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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