Model integration in agent-oriented development

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-27

  Fuentes Fernández, Rubén ^a   Gómez Sanz, Jorge J ^a   Pavón, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activity Theory; AT; conceptual mappings; integrated development; method engineering; UML AT; Unified Modelling Language for Activity Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866071019     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijaose.2007.013263     Document Type: Article

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