Synthesis of a generic MAS metamodel

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Beydoun, Ghassan ^a   Low, Graham ^a   Gonzalez Perez, Cesar ^b   Henderson Sellers, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DESIGN TIME; ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE; META MODEL; METHOD ENGINEERING; METHOD FRAGMENTS; RUNTIMES; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944712557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1082960.1082970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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