Semantic information brokering: How can a multi-agent approach help?

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

Volumn 1652, Issue , 1999, Pages 303-322

  Sheth, Amit ^a   Kashyap, Vipul ^a   Lima, Tarcisio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

BROKERING ARCHITECTURE; DATA AND INFORMATION; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION REQUEST; MULTI-AGENT APPROACH; SATISFACTORY SOLUTIONS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SYSTEM INTEROPERABILITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84946040352     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48414-0_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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