On the evaluation of agent-oriented software engineering methodologies: A statistical approach

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

Volumn 4898 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 105-122

  Elamy, Abdel Halim Hafez ^a   Far, Behrouz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA); Balanced Incomplete Block Design (BIBD); Methodologies; Multi agent Systems (MAS); Software metrics

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH PLATING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TECHNOLOGY;

AGENT-BASED COMPUTING; AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); BALANCED INCOMPLETE BLOCK DESIGN (BIBD); BEST FIT; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; INTELLIGENT SOFTWARES; METHODOLOGIES; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (MAS); RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE METRICS; STATISTICAL APPROACHES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 49949100492     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77990-2_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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