UML 2.0 and agents: How to build agent-based systems with the new UML standard

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-157

  Bauer, Bernhard ^a   Odell, James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b Agentis Software Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based systems; Agent oriented software engineering; UML 2.0

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTICASTING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; OBJECT MANAGEMENT GROUP (OMG); UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML) 2.0;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 13844256765     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2004.11.016     Document Type: Article

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