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International Conference on Autonomous Agents archive
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: demo papers table of contents

Estoril, Portugal

SESSION: Academic software table of contents

Pages 1673-1674

Year of Publication: 2008

Authors

Zhiyong Zhang	RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
John Thangarajah	RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Lin Padgham	RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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AAAI : Association for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Richland, SC

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The Prometheus Design Tool (PDT) is an agent development tool that supports the Prometheus design methodology and includes features like automated code generation. We enhance this tool by adding a feature that allows the automated unit testing of agents that are built from within PDT.

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