Formalizing the reusability of software agents

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

Volumn 3071, Issue , 2004, Pages 246-257

  Bergenti, Federico ^a  

^a AOT Lab   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REUSABILITY; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT MODEL; AGENT-ORIENTED; COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPOSABILITY; REUSABILITY OF SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 35048821917     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25946-6_16     Document Type: Article

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