Enhancing communication inside multi-agent systems an approach based on alignment via upper ontologies

Agent, Web Services, and Ontologies Integrated Methodologies - International Workshop MALLOW-AWESOME 2007, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 92-107

  Mascardi, Viviana ^a   Rosso, Paolo ^b   Cordì, Valentina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UPPER ONTOLOGY;

WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 67249134476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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