An expert system for the design of agents

2007 2nd International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 805-810

  Cossentino, Massimo ^a,b   Sabatucci, Luca ^c   Seidita, Valeria ^c   Gaglio, Salvatore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

^b ICAR CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent supported cooperative work; Design methodology; Expert system; Multi agent system; Software engineering process definition

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; AGENT SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DESIGN ACTIVITY; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN PROCESS; PROCESS LIFE CYCLES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS DEFINITION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 50149122436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDIM.2007.4444323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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