Software agents to enable service composition through negotiation

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 170, Issue , 2009, Pages 275-296

  Di Napoli, Claudia ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Negotiation; Service oriented computing; Software agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049173777     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88049-3_12     Document Type: Article

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