Interoperation among agent-based information systems through a communication acts ontology

Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1121-1144

  Bermúdez, Jesús ^a   Goñi, Alfredo ^a   Illarramendi, Arantza ^a   Bagüés, Miren I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ontology; Semantic interoperability; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE; AGENT TECHNOLOGY; COMMUNICATION ACTS; INTERCOMMUNICATION; MULTIPLE SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548507493     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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