Agent-based web services framework and development environment

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 678-692

  Li, Yinsheng ^a,c   Shen, Weiming ^a   Ghenniwa, Hamada ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agent based web services; E marketplaces; Knowledge representation; Semantic description; Software agents; Web services

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AGENT-BASED WEB SERVICES; E-MARKETPLACES; SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION; WEB SERVICES;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 8344261472     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0824-7935.2004.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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