The Tropos metamodel and its use

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 401-408

  Susi, Angelo ^a   Perini, Anna ^a   Mylopoulos, John ^a   Giorgini, Paolo ^b  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent Oriented Software Engineering Methodology; Metamodel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY; METAMODEL;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 29844451321     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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