Taming agents and objects in software engineering

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

Volumn 2603, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-26

  Silva, Viviane ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^a   Brandão, Anarosa ^a   Chavez, Christina ^b   Lucena, Carlos ^a   Alencar, Paulo ^c  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; AUTONOMOUS COMPONENTS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM; LARGE-SCALE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 35248892066     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-35828-5_1     Document Type: Article

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