From requirements to multi-agent architecture using organisational concepts

SELMAS 2005 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bastos, Lucia R D ^a   Castro, Jaelson F B ^b  

^a Banco Do Brasil   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ARCHITECTURAL MODELING; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; ORGANISATIONAL; ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE; REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870801280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1082960.1082980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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