Building a MultiAgent System from a User Workflow Specification

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 204, Issue , 2006, Pages 96-103

  Bartocci, Ezio ^a   Corradini, Flavio ^a   Merelli, Emanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED APPLICATIONS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); PROCESS DEFINITION; RUNTIMES; TRANSFORMATION RULES; WORKFLOW SPECIFICATION;

MIDDLEWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 84868671852     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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