ASPECS: An agent-oriented software process for engineering complex systems

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 260-304

  Cossentino, Massimo ^a,b   Gaud, Nicolas ^a   Hilaire, Vincent ^a   Galland, Stéphane ^a   Koukam, Abderrafiâa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

^b ICAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering; Complex hierarchical systems; Design methodology; Holonic multiagent systems; Software development process

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953324400     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-009-9099-4     Document Type: Article

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