Towards an emergence-driven software process for agent-based simulation

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

Volumn 2581, Issue , 2003, Pages 89-104

  David, Nuno ^a,b   Simão Sichman, Jaime ^b   Coelho, Helder ^c  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VERIFICATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; HYPERSTRUCTURES; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODS; SOFTWARE PROCESS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT-BASED MODELS; AGENT-BASED SIMULATION; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; SOFTWARE PROCESSES;

EID: 7044224300     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36483-8_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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