Designing multi-agent systems: A framework and application

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 259-271

  Park, Sooyong ^a   Sugumaran, Vijayan ^b  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent design; Architecture Description Language (ADL); Intelligent agent; MAS architecture; Multi agent systems; Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Indexed keywords

AGENT DESIGN; ARCHITECTURE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (ADL); MAS ARCHITECTURE; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 11244349852     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2004.10.006     Document Type: Article

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