A lifecycle for models of large multi-agent Systems

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

Volumn 2222, Issue , 2002, Pages 297-317

  Vasconcelos, Wamberto ^a   Robertson, David ^a   Agustí, Jaume ^b   Sierra, Carles ^b   Wooldridge, Michael ^c   Parsons, Simon ^c   Walton, Christopher ^a   Sabater, Jordi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT SYSTEMS; GLOBAL MODELS; IN-BUILDINGS; INDIVIDUAL BASED MODEL; INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR; KEY ISSUES; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84959046729     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-70657-7_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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