Specifying reuse concerns in agent system design using a role algebra

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

Volumn 2592, Issue , 2003, Pages 121-136

  Karageorgos, Anthony ^a   Thompson, Simon ^b   Mehandjiev, Nikolay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SEMANTICS; DECISION THEORY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AGENT SYSTEM DESIGNS; AGENT SYSTEMS; DESIGN DECISIONS; DESIGN KNOWLEDGE; DIFFERENT SERVICES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DESIGN DECISIONS; TOOLKIT;

EID: 7444245061     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36559-1_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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