A knowledge-based tool for multi-agent domain engineering

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 604-611

  Girardi, Rosario ^a   Leite, Adriana ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Knowledge based systems; Multi agent domain engineering; Multi agent systems; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY;

DOMAIN ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENTS; MULTI-AGENT DOMAIN ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGIES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 50949097961     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2008.03.036     Document Type: Article

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