OCEAN: An ontology for supporting interoperability service utilities in virtual organisations

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-209

  Verginadis, Yiannis ^a   Apostolou, Dimitris ^b   Papageorgiou, Nikos ^a   Mentzas, Gregoris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Interoperability service utility; ISU; Networked collaboration; Semantic interoperability; Top level ontology; Virtual organization; VO

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

COLLABORATION SERVICES; COLLABORATIVE NETWORKED ORGANISATIONS; NETWORKED COLLABORATION; PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY; SEMANTIC HETEROGENEITY; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; SERVICE UTILITIES; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 80052618050     PISSN: 14709503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2011.042418     Document Type: Article

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