Provisioning heterogeneous and unreliable providers for service workflows

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1452-1458

  Stein, Sebastian ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a   Payne, Terry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABSTRACT WORKFLOWS; REMOTE SERVICES; SERVICE WORKFLOWS; SERVICE-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGIES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 36348939830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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