Forming agents for business process orchestration

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 3273-3282

  Blake, M Brian ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

COMPONENT-BASED SERVICES; SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES; SERVICE-BASED CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL WORKFLOW (SCW); WEB SERVICES DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (WSDL);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 12344258656     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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