The construction of multi-agent systems as an engineering discipline

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

Volumn 4457 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 25-37

  Gomez Sanz, Jorge J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering; Development; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENT; REAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 38349044374     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75524-1_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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