Programming software agents as designing executable business processes: A model-driven perspective

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3067, Issue , 2004, Pages 49-71

  Müller, Jörg P ^a   Bauer, Bernhard ^b   Friese, Thomas ^c  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESSES; GLOBALIZATION; MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE (MDA); WEB SERVICES; BUSINESS PROCESS ARCHITECTURES; BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION LANGUAGE FOR WEB SERVICES; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES; PLATFORM INDEPENDENT MODEL; PROGRAMMING AGENTS; PROGRAMMING SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION SERVICES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB; ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; DESIGN; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WEB SERVICES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 23144442578     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25936-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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