Composing web services enacted by autonomous agents through agent-centric contract net protocol

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 951-967

  Lee, Jonathan ^a   Lee, Shin Jie ^a   Chen, Hsi Min ^a   Wu, Chia Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Agent organization; Autonomous agents; Dynamic role binding; Reputation model; Web service composition

Indexed keywords

AGENT ORGANIZATION; AGENT ROLES; AGENT TECHNOLOGY; COMPOSITE SERVICES; CONTRACT NET PROTOCOLS; CONTRACTOR AGENTS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; DYNAMIC ROLES; KEY FEATURE; MIDDLE AGENT; NEGOTIATION MECHANISM; SELECTION ALGORITHM; SERVICE COMPOSERS; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION; WEB SERVICE TECHNOLOGY;

MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84862779267     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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