Flexible service provisioning with advance agreements

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 246-253

  Stein, Sebastian ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a   Payne, Terry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Service provisioning; Service oriented computing; Workflows

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; FLEXIBLE SERVICE PROVISIONING; NOVEL ALGORITHM; SERVICE CONSUMERS; SERVICE ORIENTED COMPUTING; SERVICE PROVIDER AGENTS; SERVICE PROVISIONING; WORK-FLOWS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 84899961243     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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