Semantically enriched navigation for indoor environments

International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 453-478

  Tsetsos, Vassileios ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Christos ^a   Kikiras, Panayotis ^b   Hadjiefthymiades, Stathes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

indoor navigation; ontology; path selection; Semantic Web; shortest paths; universal access; user models

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349022836     PISSN: 17411106     EISSN: 17411114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2006.011714     Document Type: Article

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