Reaching consensus: A moderated fuzzy web services discovery method

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 410-423

  Huang, Chun Lung ^a   Lo, Chi Chun ^a   Chao, Kuo Ming ^b   Younas, Muhammad ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Faculty of Health and Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consensus; Fuzzy method; Web services; Web services discovery

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FUZZY SETS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONSENSUS; FUZZY METHOD; WEB SERVICES; WEB SERVICES DISCOVERY;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33646512422     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2005.12.011     Document Type: Article

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