Trust-enabling decision support system for e-tourism intermediation

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 275-299

  Pettenati, M Chiara ^a   Bussotti, Paolo ^a   Parlanti, David ^a   Giuli, Dino ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b AEI ^*

^c IEEE

Author keywords

Agent technologies; Decision support system; E tourism; Knowledge base; Semantic Web; SW; Trust building model

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; REUSABILITY; SEMANTIC WEB;

AGENT TECHNOLOGY; E-COMMERCE APPLICATIONS; ETOURISM; INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE-BASED DECISION MAKING; TECHNOLOGICAL FEASIBILITY; TRUST BUILDING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 45849083927     PISSN: 14709503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2008.018824     Document Type: Article

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