agentTool process editor: Supporting the design of tailored agent-based processes

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 707-714

  Garcia Ojeda, Juan C ^a   DeLoach, Scott A ^a   Robby, ^a  

^a 234 Nichols Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

agentTool III; agentTool process editor; CASE tool; Method engineering; O MaSE

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-ORIENTED; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; BASIC STRUCTURE; CASE TOOLS; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; EARNED VALUE ANALYSIS; ECLIPSE PROCESS FRAMEWORK; METHOD ENGINEERING; PLUG-INS; PROCESS CONSISTENCY; PROCESS ENGINEER; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; TASK CONSTRAINTS;

BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SCIENCE; VALUE ENGINEERING; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 72949124845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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