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An Approach to Agent-Based Service Composition and Its Application to Mobile Business Processes
July-September 2003 (vol. 2 no. 3)
pp. 197-206
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Michael Berger, Makram Bouzid, Mark Buckland, Habin Lee, Nicolas Lhuillier, Dieter Olpp, J?r? Picault, John Shepherdson, "An Approach to Agent-Based Service Composition and Its Application to Mobile Business Processes," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 197-206, July-September, 2003.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TMC.2003.1233526,
author = {Michael Berger and Makram Bouzid and Mark Buckland and Habin Lee and Nicolas Lhuillier and Dieter Olpp and J?r? Picault and John Shepherdson},
title = {An Approach to Agent-Based Service Composition and Its Application to Mobile Business Processes},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
volume = {2},
number = {3},
issn = {1536-1233},
year = {2003},
pages = {197-206},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2003.1233526},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
TI - An Approach to Agent-Based Service Composition and Its Application to Mobile Business Processes
IS - 3
SN - 1536-1233
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EPD - 197-206
A1 - Michael Berger,
A1 - Makram Bouzid,
A1 - Mark Buckland,
A1 - Habin Lee,
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A1 - J?r? Picault,
A1 - John Shepherdson,
PY - 2003
KW - Business to worker
KW - multiagent system
KW - multiagent architecture
KW - generic service component
KW - field trial
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JA - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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Abstract—This paper describes an architecture model for multiagent systems that was developed in the European project LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform). Its main feature is a set of generic services that are implemented independently of the agents and can be installed into the agents by the application developer in a flexible way. Moreover, two applications using this architecture model are described that were also developed within the LEAP project. The application domain is the support of mobile, virtual teams for the German automobile club ADAC and for British Telecommunications.

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Index Terms:
Business to worker, multiagent system, multiagent architecture, generic service component, field trial, virtual team.
Citation:
Michael Berger, Makram Bouzid, Mark Buckland, Habin Lee, Nicolas Lhuillier, Dieter Olpp, J?r? Picault, John Shepherdson, "An Approach to Agent-Based Service Composition and Its Application to Mobile Business Processes," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 197-206, July-Sept. 2003, doi:10.1109/TMC.2003.1233526
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