Agents in object-oriented software engineering

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 489-521

  Garcia, Alessandro F ^a   De Lucena, Carlos J P ^a   Cowan, Donald D ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspectoriented software development; Multi agent systems; Object oriented systems; Software agents; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PORTALS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ASPECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OBJECT ORIENTED SYSTEMS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 1842665038     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.578     Document Type: Review

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