A comprehensive view of agent-oriented patterns

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 337-377

  Oluyomi, Ayodele ^a   Karunasekera, Shanika ^a   Sterling, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent technology; Agent oriented patterns; Agent oriented software engineering; Classification scheme

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248898741     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-007-9014-9     Document Type: Article

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