Towards a component-based development framework for agents

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3187, Issue , 2004, Pages 183-197

  Jayatilleke, Gaya Buddhinath ^a   Padgham, Lin ^a   Winikoff, Michael ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; XML; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

AGENT BUILDING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (ABLE); AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (AOSE); AGENT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS; SMART FRAMEWORK; COMPONENT BASED; COMPONENT BASED APPROACH; COMPONENT-BASED DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; MODULAR MODIFICATION;

SOFTWARE AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 22944469084     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30082-3_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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