Organizational structures supported by agent-oriented methodologies

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-184

  Isern, David ^a   Sánchez, David ^a   Moreno, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent oriented methodologies; Organizations; Software agents

Indexed keywords

AGENT TECHNOLOGY; AGENT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGY; AUTONOMOUS ENTITIES; COLLABORATION PATTERNS; COMPLEX APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; ORGANIZATIONS; SOFTWARE PARADIGM;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650601632     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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