Derivation of Glue Code for Agent Interoperation

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 265-286

  Burstein, Mark ^a   McDermott, Drew ^b   Smith, Douglas R ^c   Westfold, Stephen J ^c  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c KESTREL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent communication; Agent interoperation; Code generation; Glue code; Ontology mapping; Semantic message translation; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

AGENT COMMUNICATION; AGENT INTEROPERATION; CODE GENERATION; GLUE CODE; ONTOLOGY MAPPING; SEMANTIC MESSAGE TRANSLATION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DATA STRUCTURES; FORMAL LOGIC; MARKETING; SEMANTICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0347132458     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022975408458     Document Type: Article

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