View composition in multiagent architectures

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-33

  Boucké, Nelis ^a   Holvoet, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ADL; Architectural description language; Composition; MAS; Multiagent architectures; Multiagent systems; Relations; Separation of concerns

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955407549     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2008.016798     Document Type: Article

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