The AOIS Glossary

Edition 0.2 (April 2000)

Gerd Wagner
Institute of Informatics
Free University of Berlin, Germany
E-mail:  gw@inf.fu-berlin.de


This glossary has been written and compiled as a service to the AOIS community. It lists many fundamental terms and concepts that are relevant to AOIS. Since in some cases, I could not avoid to express my personal views on certain matters, readers are invited to send me comments and criticisms. Also, proposals for additional entries are welcome. Though I cannot promise to include all suggestions made, I will carefully study each of them, and take it into consideration in one way or another.

Contents

ACID Transaction, Action, Agent, Agent Communication Language (ACL), Agent-Oriented Information System (AOIS), Business Rule, Business Transaction, Contract Net Protocol, CORBA, Database Management System (DBMS), Data Warehouse, Derivation Rule, EDI, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Entity-Relationship (ER) Modeling, Information System, Integrity Constraint, Interoperability, Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF), KQML, Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM), Message Transport, Mobile Agent, Multiagent Systems (MAS), OLAP Application, OLTP System, Object-Relational Database (ORDB), Object-Oriented Database (OODB), Ontology, Proposition, Protocol, Reaction Rule, Relational Database (RDB), Rule, Speech Act Theory, SQL, TCP/IP, Unified Modeling Language (UML).
 

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