Visual specification and monitoring of software agents in decentralized process-centred environments

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 425-444

  Grundy, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Distributed software agents; End user computing; Process centered environments; Task automation; Visual languages; Work coordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744301219     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194099000243     Document Type: Article

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