E-service/process composition through multi-agent constraint management

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4102 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 274-289

  Wang, Minhong ^a,b   Cheung, William K ^b   Liu, Jiming ^b,c   Xie, Xiaofeng ^b   Luo, Zongwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION THEORY; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

E-SERVICE; E-SUPPLY CHAIN; MULTI AGENT CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 33749998662     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11841760_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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