Towards agent-based coalition formation for service composition

Proceedings - 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2006 Main Conference Proceedings), IAT'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 73-80

  Müller, Ingo ^a   Kowalczyk, Ryszard ^a   Braun, Peter ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Agent Factory GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

COALITION FORMATION; INTERACTION PROTOCOLS; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 38949186461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAT.2006.122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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