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A methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design

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Michael Wooldridge,

Nicholas R. Jennings,

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AGENTS '99: Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents

Pages 69 - 76

https://doi.org/10.1145/301136.301165

Published: 01 April 1999 Publication History

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