Malaca: A component and aspect-oriented agent architecture

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1052-1065

  Amor, Mercedes ^a   Fuentes, Lidia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aspect Oriented Software Development; Component based Software Engineering; Reuse; Software agent; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; MODULAR CONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; AGENT-BASED SOFTWARES; ARCHITECTURAL LEVELS; ASPECT-ORIENTED; ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DOMAIN SPECIFICS; MODULARIZATION; MODULARIZED; OBJECT-ORIENTED; REUSE;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 62349116347     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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