Towards a semantic- and context-based approach for composing web services

International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 268-286

  Mrissa, Michaël ^a   Benslimane, Djamal ^a   Maamar, Zakaria ^b   Ghedira, Chirine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

composition; context; ontology; semantics; web services

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247571615     PISSN: 17411106     EISSN: 17411114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijwgs.2005.008390     Document Type: Article

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