Development and specification of a reference model for agent-based systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 572-596

  Regli, William C ^a   Mayk, Israel ^b   Dugan, Christopher J ^a   Kopena, Joseph B ^a   Lass, Robert N ^a   Modi, Pragnesh Jay ^a   Mongan, William M ^a   Salvage, Jeff K ^a   Sultanik, Evan A ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Distributed artificial intelligence (AI); Multiagent; Reference model; Reverse engineering; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

AGENT FRAMEWORK; AGENT SYSTEMS; AGENT-BASED SOFTWARES; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI); FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT PHYSICAL AGENTS; MULTIAGENT; REFERENCE MODEL; REFERENCE MODELS; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; SOFTWARE REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; STANDARDIZATION;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 69549088321     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2020507     Document Type: Article

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