Towards a service requirements modelling ontology based on agent knowledge and intentions

International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 324-349

  Liu, Lin ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Chi, Chi Hung ^a   Jin, Zhi ^b   Yu, Eric ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Modelling; Ontology; QoS; Quality of Service; Requirements; Services; Trust

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

AGENT KNOWLEDGE; AGENT SYSTEMS; AGENT-ORIENTED REQUIREMENTS; FORMAL REASONING; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; REASONING FRAMEWORK; REQUIREMENTS MODELING; SERVICE DISCOVERY; SERVICE REQUIREMENTS;

AGENTS;

EID: 69849101740     PISSN: 17461375     EISSN: 17461383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2008.019422     Document Type: Article

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