A SOA-based mobile guide to augment tourists' experiences with user-generated content and third-party services

Proceedings of the 2009 4th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services, ICIW 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 435-442

  Paganelli, Federica ^a   Parlanti, David ^a   Francini, Niccoló ^b   Giuli, Dino ^b  

^a National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Service oriented architecture; Services integration; Tourism; Web services

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DELIVERY; LOCATION BASED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE GUIDES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES; SERVICES INTEGRATION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SYSTEM PROTOTYPE; TOURISM; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; WEB SERVICES;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

EID: 70349739018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIW.2009.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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