A survey of multi-agent programming languages and frameworks

Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: Reflections on Architectures, Methodologies, Languages, and Frameworks

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 213-233

  Dastani, Mehdi ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agent oriented programming languages; Multi agent development frameworks; Multi agent programming; Organization oriented programming languages

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AGENT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; AGENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; MULTI AGENT; MULTI-AGENT DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK; MULTI-AGENT PROGRAMMING; ORGANIZATION-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK; RESEARCH FIELDS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84940043962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54432-3_11     Document Type: Chapter

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