Towards ubiquitous tourist service coordination and process integration: A collaborative travel agent system architecture with semantic web services

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 241-256

  Chiu, Dickson K W ^a   Yueh, Yves T F ^b   Leung, Ho Fung ^c   Hung, Patrick C K ^d  

^a Dickson Computer System   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaborative process integration; Multi agent information system; Ontology; Semantic Web services; Tourist information system; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

AGENT CLUSTERS; COLLABORATIVE PROCESS INTEGRATION; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INTELLIGENT MULTI-AGENT; MAIS ARCHITECTURE; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE USERS; MULTI-AGENT INFORMATION SYSTEM; PLANNING STAGES; PROCESS INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY; SERVICE COORDINATION; SERVICE ORIENTED; SERVICE PROCESS; SERVICE RESOURCES; TOUR OPERATOR; TOURIST INFORMATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL AGENCY; TRAVEL AGENTS; UBIQUITOUS ACCESS; WEB SERVICE TECHNOLOGY;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WEB SERVICES;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 67651162256     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-008-9087-2     Document Type: Article

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