Towards an agent-oriented approach to conceptualization

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-139

  Biswas, Pratik K ^a  

^a AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent oriented analysis; Agent oriented design; Agent oriented modeling; Agent oriented software engineering; Agent oriented thinking; Extended agent model; Intelligent agents; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AGENT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS; AGENT-ORIENTED DESIGN; AGENT-ORIENTED MODELING; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; AGENT-ORIENTED THINKING; EXTENDED AGENT MODEL;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 34548493902     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2006.11.009     Document Type: Article

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