Agent-oriented design

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1647, Issue , 1999, Pages 28-40

  Barber, K S ^a   Liu, T H ^a   Han, D C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AGENT ORGANIZATION; AGENT ORIENTED DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION; PLAN EXECUTION; PLAN GENERATION; RESEARCH RESULTS; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS; TASK ALLOCATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84957640376     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48437-X_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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