Semantic-enhanced Bluetooth discovery protocol for m-commerce applications

International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 424-452

  Ruta, Michele ^a   Di Noia, Tommaso ^a   Sciascio, Eugenio Di ^a   Maria Donini, Francesco ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bluetooth; e commerce; matchmaking; resource discovery; Semantic Web; ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849032345     PISSN: 17411106     EISSN: 17411114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2006.011713     Document Type: Article

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24. Notice that BR is equivalent to (≥ 1 R).
25. We write (= n R) for (≥ n R) 􀂊 (≤ n R
26. Obviously, we do not expect users to exploit any logic formalism. We expect users to be provided with a friendly graphical application (see the one we developed for our prototype framework, which is described later on).