A contract model for electronic institutions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4870 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 27-40

  Cardoso, Henrique Lopes ^a   Oliveira, Eugénio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; TRUSTED THIRD PARTIES;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 70349310558     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79003-7-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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