Towards seamless agent middleware

Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE

Volumn 13, Issue , 2004, Pages 417-422

  Omicini, Andrea ^a   Rimassa, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Whitestein Technologies AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION (EAI); MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE (MDA); ONTOLOGIES; SOFTWARE INTEGRATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; INTEROPERABILITY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 10444254825     PISSN: 15244547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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