The GRITIKA ontology for modeling e-service applications: Formal specification and illustration

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 1081-1090

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Kishore, Rajiv ^b   Sharman, Raj ^b   Ramesh, Ram ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ONTOLOGY; E-SERVICES; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; MULTIAGENT-BASED INTEGRATIVE BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MIBIS);

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INVENTORY CONTROL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 12344328384     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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