A product-line requirements approach to safe reuse in multi-agent systems

SELMAS 2005 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Dehlinger, Josh ^a   Lutz, Robyn R ^a,b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

AGENT-ORIENTED REQUIREMENTS; CONTEXT AWARE ,; DISTRIBUTED SATELLITE SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC VARIATIONS; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; REQUIREMENTS TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM EVOLUTION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 51049105068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1082960.1082981     Document Type: Conference Paper

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