Context-aware agents for user-oriented web services discovery and execution

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-58

  Blake, M Brian ^a,b   Kahan, Daniel R ^a   Nowlan, Michael Fitzgerald ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Intelligent agents; Service oriented computing; Software agents and context for Web services personalization; User context and Web service discovery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GROUPWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTEXT-AWARE AGENTS; SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING (SOC); USER CONTEXT; WEB SERVICE DISCOVERY;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 33845730425     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: 15737578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-006-7001-9     Document Type: Article

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