Engineering open complex agent systems: A case study

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 483-496

  Cao, Longbing ^a   Zhang, Chengqi ^a   Zhou, MengChu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering (AOSE); Multiagent systems (MS); Open complex agent systems (OCAS); Organization oriented analysis (OOA)

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; MACHINE DESIGN; MATERIALS HANDLING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (AOSE); CASE STUDIES; CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS; COMPLEX AGENT; EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; EVALUATION RESULTS; FINANCIAL TRADING; FORMAL MODELING; HUMAN USERS; MODEL SYSTEMS; REAL WORLD; SERVICE ORIENTED SYSTEMS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS (SD); SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 46849107713     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2008.923863     Document Type: Article

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