A contract agreement policy-based workflow methodology for agents interacting in the semantic web

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

Volumn 6403 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 225-239

  Kravari, Kalliopi ^a   Kastori, Grammati Eirini ^a   Bassiliades, Nick ^a   Governatori, Guido ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

defeasible reasoning; e Contracts; intelligent agents; semantic web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CONTRACTS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REUSABILITY;

COMPLEX ACTIONS; CONTRACT AGREEMENTS; CONTRACT NEGOTIATION; DEFEASIBLE REASONING; E-CONTRACTS; ONLINE TRANSACTION; REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS; REQUEST SATISFACTION;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 78449234182     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16289-3_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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