Middle-agents interactions as finite state processes: Overview and example

Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 12-17

  Bǎdicǎ, Amelia ^a   Bǎdicǎ, Costin ^a   Liţoiu, Valentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; MIDDLE-AGENTS;

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER NETWORKS;

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

EID: 51149104832     PISSN: 15244547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WETICE.2007.4407119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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