Reasoning about goals in BDI agents: The PRACTIONIST framework

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 204, Issue , 2006, Pages 187-194

  Morreale, Vito ^a   Bonura, Susanna ^a   Francaviglia, Giuseppe ^a   Centineo, Fabio ^a   Cossentino, Massimo ^b,d   Gaglio, Salvatore ^b,c  

^a ENGINEERING INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA S P A   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; AGENT SYSTEMS; ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; BDI AGENT; BELIEF-DESIRE-INTENTION MODELS; GOAL MODELS; GOAL ORIENTED REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; GOAL-ORIENTED APPROACH; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; USER STORIES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 84868640077     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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