Engineering open environments with electronic institutions

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 191-204

  Arcos, Josep Ll ^a   Esteva, Marc ^b   Noriega, Pablo ^a   Rodríguez Aguilar, Juan A ^a   Sierra, Carles ^a  

^a ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering; Multiagent system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WEBSITES;

AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ELECTRONIC INSTITUTIONS (EI); SIMULATION TOOLS; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CYCLE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 13844280318     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2004.11.019     Document Type: Article

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