From task to agent-oriented meta-models, and back again

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

Volumn 5247, Issue , 2008, Pages 41-57

  Goschnick, Steve ^a   Balbo, Sandrine ^a   Sonenberg, Liz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent Meta models; Agent oriented; Agents in computer games; Computer game development; Meta model; Multi Agent Systems; Software Engineering; Task Meta models; Task Models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JOB ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT META-MODELS; AGENT-ORIENTED; AGENTS IN COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTER GAME DEVELOPMENT; META MODEL; TASK META-MODELS; TASK MODELS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 56749175600     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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