Semantic Web support for the business-to-business e-commerce pre-contractual lifecycle

Computer Networks

Volumn 42, Issue 5 SPEC., 2003, Pages 661-673

  Trastour, David ^a   Bartolini, Claudio ^a   Preist, Chris ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated negotiation; DAML+OIL; E commerce; Matchmaking; Semantic Web; Service description

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; QUERY LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONTOLOGIES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 0038683242     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(03)00229-9     Document Type: Review

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