Web services in the retail industry

Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 159-177

  Mallick, Sudeep ^a   Sharma, Anuj ^b   Kumar, B V ^a   Subrahmanya, S V ^a  

^a E and R   (India)

^b INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Retail; SOAP; UDDI; Web services; WSDL

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INVENTORY CONTROL; MANAGERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

RETAIL INDUSTRY; SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLE (SOAP); UDDI; UNIVERSAL DESCRIPTION, DISCOVERY AND INTEGRATION (UDDI); WEB SERVICES; WEB SERVICES DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (WSDL); WSDL;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 23044455885     PISSN: 02562499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02706243     Document Type: Article

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