An agent design method promoting separation between computation and coordination

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 456-461

  Janssens, Nico ^a   Steegmans, Elke ^a   Holvoet, Tom ^a   Verbaeten, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agent design method; Case study; Coordination; Separation of concerns

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT DESIGN METHOD; CASE-STUDY; COORDINATION; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS;

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EID: 2442562548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/967900.967996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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