Agent societies: Towards frameworks-based design

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

Volumn 2222, Issue , 2002, Pages 33-49

  Dignum, Virginia ^a   Weigand, Hans ^b   Xu, Lai ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT SOCIETY; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DETAILED MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84959039335     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-70657-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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