A negotiation agent for distributed heterogeneous statistical databases

Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 207-216

  McClean, S ^a   Pairceir R ^a   Scotney, B ^a   Greer, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Artificial intelligence; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Intelligent agent; Internet; Runtime; Software agents; Statistics; Testing

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE TESTING; STATISTICS; TESTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTOMATED METHODS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; NEGOTIATION AGENTS; QUERY-BY EXAMPLE; RUNTIMES; STATISTICAL DATABASE;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 5444234592     PISSN: 10993371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSDM.2002.1029722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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