Engineering multi-agent systems with aspects and patterns

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-72

  Garcia, Alessandro ^a   Silva, Viviane ^a   Chavez, Christina ^a,b   Lucena, Carlos ^a  

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

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented development; Design patterns; Multi agent systems; Object oriented systems; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PORTALS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ASPECT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN PATTERNS; MULTI AGENT SOFTWARE; OBJECT ORIENTED SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842743089     PISSN: 01046500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0104-65002002000100006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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