Designing agent systems: State of the practice

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 224-243

  DIgnum, Virginia ^a   Dignum, Frank ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent organisations; Agent oriented methodologies; AOS; Multi agent systems engineering; Survey

Indexed keywords

AGENT SYSTEMS; AGENT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGIES; AOS; APPLICATION DOMAINS; DESIGNING AGENTS; DOMAIN ANALYSIS; KEY COMPONENT; STATE OF THE PRACTICE;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SURVEYS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649274108     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2010.036983     Document Type: Article

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