Improving the automatic procurement of web services using constraint programming

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 439-467

  Ruiz Cortés, Antonio ^a   Martín Díaz, Octavio ^a   Durán, Amador ^a   Toro, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Constraint programming; Cross organizational systems; Matchmakers; Procurement; Quality of service; Web services

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944434867     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843005001225     Document Type: Article

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