Multi-agent system product lines: Challenges and benefits

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Pẽa, Joaquin ^a   Hinchey, Michael G ^b   Ruiz Cortés, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT TECHNOLOGY; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (AOSE); SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES (SPL);

COSTS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751576759     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1183236.1183272     Document Type: Article

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