An active blackboard for service discovery, composition and execution

International Journal of Electronic Governance

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 275-295

  Lepouras, George ^a   Vassilakis, Costas ^a   Sotiropoulou, Anya ^a   Theotokis, Dimitris ^b   Katifori, Akrivi ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and Technology ^*  (Greece)

^b IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blackboard architecture; E government; Electronic services; Ontologies; Semantics; Service composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951714878     PISSN: 17427509     EISSN: 17427517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2008.020450     Document Type: Article

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