Agile PASSI: An agile process for designing agents

Computer Systems Science and Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-144

  Chella, Antonio ^a   Cossentino, Massimo ^b   Sabatucci, Luca ^a   Seidita, Valeria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b ICAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agents; Agile methodology; Agile PASSI; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; ROBOTICS;

AGILE METHODOLOGY; AGILE PASSI; AUTOMATIC PRODUCTION; DESIGN DOCUMENTATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646359922     PISSN: 02676192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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