Agent Modeling Language (AML): A comprehensive approach to modeling MAS

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 391-400

  Trencansky, Ivan ^a   Cervenka, Radovan ^a  

^a Whitestein Technologies   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Agent; Agent oriented software engineering; Modeling language; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (AOSE); MODELING LANGUAGE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 29844455455     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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