ELDATool: A Statecharts-based tool for prototyping Multi-Agent Systems

WOA 2007 - 8th AI*IA/TABOO Joint Workshop "From Objects to Agents": Agents and Industry: Technological Applications of Software Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 14-19

  Fortino, Giancarlo ^a   Garro, Alfredo ^a   Mascillaro, Samuele ^a   Russo, Wilma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distilled Statecharts; Multi agent systems; State based programming; Visual tools

Indexed keywords

AGENT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGY; AUTOMATIC CODE GENERATIONS; DETAILED DESIGN; DISTILLED STATECHARTS; HIGH-LEVEL DESIGN; ITERATIVE PROCESS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); PLUG-INS; VISUAL TOOLS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84868704558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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