Goal-oriented methodology for agent system development

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E89-D, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1413-1420

  Shen, Zhiqi ^a   Miao, Chunyan ^b   Gay, Robert ^a,c,d   Li, Dongtao ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Managed Computing Competency Centre

^d NTU

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering; Goal Net; Goal oriented modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; GOAL NET; GOAL-ORIENTED MODELING; MULTI-AGENT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (MADE);

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646263097     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.4.1413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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