A review of agent-based systems applied in environmental informatics

MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1574-1580

  Athanasiadis, Ioannis N ^a  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering; Agents and multi agent systems; Decision support and simulation; Environmental management; Environmental software

Indexed keywords

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; AGENT PLATFORM; AGENT PROGRAMMING; AGENT TECHNOLOGY; AGENT-BASED APPROACH; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; BUILDING BLOCKES; DECISION SUPPORT AND SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORTS; DEGREE OF PENETRATION; DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATICS; SOFTWARE DESIGN PROCESS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; SOFTWARE MODELLING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATICS;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPECIFICATIONS; TECHNOLOGY; VERIFICATION; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 67651066015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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