Service-oriented framework for human task support and automation

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 292-302

  Sasa, Ana ^a   Juric, Matjaž B ^b   Krisper, Marjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Business process automation; Multi agent system; Ontology; Service oriented architecture

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; INFORMATION SERVICES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WEB SERVICES;

AGENT TECHNOLOGIES; ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORKS; AUTOMATED TASKS; BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION; BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTIONS; BUSINESS PROCESSES; ELECTRIC POWER; HUMAN TASKS; INDUSTRIAL PROCESS; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; SERVICE-ORIENTED; SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE; TRANSMISSION COMPANIES;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 59049098028     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2008.2008641     Document Type: Article

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