FAML: A generic metamodel for MAS development

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 841-863

  Beydoun, Ghassan ^a   Low, Graham ^b   Henderson Sellers, Brian ^c   Mouratidis, Haralambos ^d   Gomez Sanz, Jorge J ^e   Pavon, Juan ^e   Gonzalez Perez, Cesar ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f CSIC XUGA Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento IEGPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Metamodel; Modeling; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT MODELING LANGUAGES; AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; AGENT-ORIENTED; AGENT-ORIENTED APPROACH; BEST PRACTICE; BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; MAS DEVELOPMENT; META MODEL; MODELING LANGUAGES; RESEARCH FIELDS; RESEARCH GROUPS; SOFTWARE LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 73549119464     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.34     Document Type: Article

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