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A Survey on the Implementation of Agent Oriented Specifications

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering X (AOSE 2009)

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Agent literature has shown a big concern on the production of multi-agent system specifications. Nevertheless, there has not been a similar effort in surveying the different ways an agent oriented specification can be transformed into the actual implementation. This survey intends to cover this gap by pointing at concrete representative works of different implementation approaches.

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  1. Computer Science Department, LES, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Ingrid Nunes, Elder Cirilo & Carlos J. P. de Lucena

  2. Multimedia Systems Laboratory, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Berliner Tor 7, 20099, Hamburg, Germany

    Jan Sudeikat

  3. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Christian Hahn

  4. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

    Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz

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Nunes, I., Cirilo, E., de Lucena, C.J.P., Sudeikat, J., Hahn, C., Gomez-Sanz, J.J. (2011). A Survey on the Implementation of Agent Oriented Specifications. In: Gleizes, MP., Gomez-Sanz, J.J. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering X. AOSE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19208-1_12

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