Humans, semantic services and similarity: A user study of semantic Web services matching and composition

Journal of Web Semantics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-28

  Toch, Eran ^a   Reinhartz Berger, Iris ^b   Dori, Dov ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Approximation; Semantic Web services; Similarity; User study

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION; CRUCIAL KNOWLEDGE; DISTANCE METRICS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; LOGIC-BASED APPROACH; SEMANTIC SERVICE; SERVICE MATCHING; SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY MODELS; THEORETICAL MODELS; USER STUDY;

SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 79951672965     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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