Towards ubiquitous tourist service coordination and integration: A multi-agent and semantic web approach

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 113, Issue , 2005, Pages 574-581

  Chiu, Dickson K W ^a   Leung, Ho Fung ^b  

^a Dickson Computer System   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

multi agent information system; ontology; semantic web; tourist information system; ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

AGENT CLUSTERS; ASSISTANCE SYSTEM; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE USERS; MULTI-AGENT; MULTI-AGENT INFORMATION SYSTEM; MULTI-AGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB APPROACH; SERVICE COORDINATION; SERVICE ORIENTED; SERVICE RESOURCES; TRAVEL AGENCY; UBIQUITOUS ACCESS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 77953828228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1089551.1089656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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