ADK: An agent development kit based on a formal design model for multi-agent systems

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 337-365

  Xu, Haiping ^a   Shatz, Sol M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent development kit (ADK); Agent oriented G net model; Intelligent agent; Model based development; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS;

AGENT DEVELOPMENT KIT; AGENT ORIENTED G-NET MODEL; MODEL BASED DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0242334211     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025859021913     Document Type: Article

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