The rationale behind the development of an airline operations control centre using Gaia-based methodology

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 350-377

  Castro, Antonio ^a,b   Oliveira, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b TAP Portugal ^*  (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agent oriented methodologies; Disruption management; Goal oriented requirements analysis; Multi agent systems; Operations recovery

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; SILICATE MINERALS;

AIRLINE OPERATIONS; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; EARLY REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS (ERA); GAIA METHODOLOGY; INTERACTION MODELING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); OPERATIONS CONTROL; ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES; SERVICE MODELING; UML 2.0;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 71049132702     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2008.019423     Document Type: Article

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