Intelligent agents as a modeling paradigm

Association for Information Systems - 26th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2005: Forever New Frontiers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 167-179

  Monu, Kafui ^a   Wand, Yair ^a   Woo, Carson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent based simulations; Conceptual modeling; Intelligent agents

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT BASED SIMULATION; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONCEPTUAL LEVELS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL MODELING; DOMAIN CONCEPTS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AGENT; MODEL COMPLEXES; MODELING PARADIGMS; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; SYSTEMS APPROACH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 78650710537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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