ODAC: An Agent-Oriented Methodology Based on ODP

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-228

  Gervais, Marie Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed applications analysis and design; Open Distributed Processing (ODP); Software agent

Indexed keywords

OPEN DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS CONSTRUCTION (ODAC); OPEN DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING (ODP);

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 0346502056     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024797300606     Document Type: Article

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