The formation of virtual organizations by means of electronic institutions in a 3D e-Tourism environment

Information Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3157-3169

  Gärtner, Markus ^a   Seidel, Ingo ^a   Froschauer, Josef ^a   Berger, Helmut ^a  

^a Matrixware Information Services GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D virtual world; e Commerce; e Marketplace; e Tourism; Electronic institutions; Multi agent system; Virtual organizations

Indexed keywords

E-COMMERCE; E-MARKETPLACES; ELECTRONIC INSTITUTIONS; ETOURISM; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77953651347     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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