Preliminary basis for an ontology-based methodological approach for multi-agent systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3770 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 131-140

  Beydoun, Ghassan ^a   Tran, Numi ^a   Low, Graham ^a   Henderson Sellers, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN-INDEPENDENT; KBS METHODOLOGIES; MAS DEVELOPMENT; ONTOLOGIES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646727440     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11568346_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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