An effective strategy for the flexible provisioning of service workflows

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

Volumn 4504 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 16-30

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION; SERVICE WORKFLOWS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 36348942835     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72619-7_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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