An approach to agent-based service composition and its application to mobile business processes

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 197-206

  Berger, Michael ^a   Bouzid, Makram ^b   Buckland, Mark ^c   Lee, Habin ^c   Lhuillier, Nicolas ^b   Olpp, Dieter ^a   Picault, Jérôme ^b   Shepherdson, John ^c  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b Motorola Labs   (France)

^c MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business to worker; Field trial; Generic service component; Multiagent architecture; Multiagent system; Virtual team

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERNET; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS TO WORKER; FIELD TRIALS; GENERIC SERVICE COMPONENT; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURES; VIRTUAL TEAMS;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 0344184618     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2003.1233526     Document Type: Article

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