Agent-based negotiation between partners in loose inter-organizational workflow

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 619-625

  Andonoff, Eric ^a   Bouzguenda, Lotfi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE CAPITOLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL WORKFLOW (IOW); META MODEL; NEGOTIATION PROTOCOL; WORKFLOW SERVICE;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 33846318182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAT.2005.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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