Semantic inference on heterogeneous e-marketplace activities

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 316-330

  Guo, Jingzhi ^a   Xu, Lida ^b,c,d   Gong, Zhiguo ^a   Che, Chin Pang ^a   Chaudhry, Sohail S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic marketplace (e marketplace); heterogeneous systems; inference engine; semantic consistency maintenance; semantic inference

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY INFERENCE; BUSINESS INFORMATION; E-MARKETPLACES; ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; INFERENCE ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE CONTEXTS; PROCESS ACTIVITIES; SEMANTIC CONSISTENCY MAINTENANCE; SEMANTIC INFERENCE;

SEMANTICS;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 84857502559     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2011.2162946     Document Type: Article

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