Developing organised multiagent systems using the MOISE+ model: programming issues at the system and agent levels

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 370-395

  Hübner, Jomi F ^a   Sichman, Jaime S ^b   Boissier, Olivier ^c  

^a REGIONAL UNIVERSITY OF BLUMENAU   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

engineering organisations for MAS; Jason; MAS organisations; MASs; Moise+; Multiagent Systems; programming agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945726709     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijaose.2007.016266     Document Type: Article

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41. http://www.lti.pcs.usp.br/saci
42. This code is merely illustrative and not the code for a really good player.