What is needed for semantic service descriptions? A proposal for suitable language constructs

International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 328-364

  Klein, Michael ^a   König Ries, Birgitta ^b   Müssig, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

semantic service descriptions; Web Ontology Language Services (OWL S); Web Service Modelling Ontology (WSMO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751049760     PISSN: 17411106     EISSN: 17411114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijwgs.2005.008393     Document Type: Article

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