Representing e-commerce rules via situated courteous logic programs in RuleML

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 2-20

  Grosof, Benjamin N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

E Business; E Commerce; E contracting; Industry standards; Interoperability; Knowledge representation; Logic programs; Non monotonic reasoning; RuleML; Rules; Semantic Web; Supply chain management; XML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STANDARDS; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

E-BUSINESS; E-COMMERCE RULES; E-CONTRACTING; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; LOGIC PROGRAMS; NON-MONOTONIC REASONING; RULEML; SEMANTIC WEB; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0442311943     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2003.09.005     Document Type: Article

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