A visual programming system for automated problem solving

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 4611-4625

  Hatzi, Ourania ^a   Vrakas, Dimitris ^b   Bassiliades, Nick ^b   Anagnostopoulos, Dimosthenis ^a   Vlahavas, Ioannis ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Automated planning; Knowledge engineering; Semantic web service composition; Visual interfaces

Indexed keywords

AI PLANNING; AUTOMATED PLANNING; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; PLANNING DOMAIN DEFINITION LANGUAGE; PLANNING DOMAINS; PLANNING PROBLEM; VISUAL INTERFACE; VISUAL PROGRAMMING; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS; WEB SERVICE COMPOSITION; WEB SERVICES TECHNOLOGIES;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEB SERVICES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 77249166486     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.12.047     Document Type: Article

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