Context-based matching for Web service composition

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-37

  Medjahed, Brahim ^a   Atif, Yacine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agent; Context; Matching; Ontology; Policy; Web service composition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTEXT CATEGORIZATION; CONTEXT-BASED MATCHING; ONTOLOGY; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION;

PATTERN MATCHING;

EID: 33845740802     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: 15737578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10619-006-7003-7     Document Type: Article

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