Towards a flexible middleware negotiation facility for distributed components

Proceedings - International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 732-736

  Andreoli, J M ^a   Castellani, S ^a  

^a XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

Author keywords

Contracts; Electronic commerce; Europe; Middleware; Protocols; Resource management; Speech; Supply chains

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SPEECH; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS; DISTRIBUTED ORGANIZATIONS; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; EUROPE; GLOBAL COMPETITION; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; MULTIATTRIBUTE NEGOTIATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 77954004448     PISSN: 15294188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEXA.2001.953144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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