A product-line approach to promote asset reuse in multi-agent systems

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

Volumn 3914 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 161-178

  Dehlinger, Josh ^a   Lutz, Robyn R ^a,b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; MICROSATELLITE CONSTELLATION; SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250199176     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11738817_10     Document Type: Article

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