On the modularity assessment of aspect-oriented multiagent architectures: A quantitative study

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 34-61

  Sant'Anna, Cláudio ^a   Lobato, Cidiane ^a   Kulesza, Uirá ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^b   Chavez, Christina ^c   Lucena, Carlos ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented architecture; MAS; Multiagent systems; Software architecture evaluation; Software metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

ASPECT-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE METRICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79959816157     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2008.016799     Document Type: Article

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