A survey of programming languages and platforms for multi-agent systems

Informatica (Ljubljana)

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-44

  Bordini, Rafael H ^a   Braubach, Lars ^b   Dastani, Mehdi ^c   El Fallah Seghrouchni, Amal ^d   Gomez Sanz, Jorge J ^e   Leite, João ^f   O'Hare, Gregory ^g   Pokahr, Alexander ^b   Ricci, Alessandro ^h  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multi Agent Systems; Platforms; Programming Languages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

FRAMEWORKS; INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS; PLATFORMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; PAPER SURVEYS; RECENT RESEARCHES;

EID: 33144455844     PISSN: 03505596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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