An enterprise ontology-based approach to service specification

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-101

  Terlouw, Linda I ^a   Albani, Antonia ^b  

^a Icris BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

enterprise ontology; human services; IT services; Service specification; service orientation

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE ONTOLOGY; HUMAN SERVICES; IT SERVICES; SERVICE ORIENTATION; SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS;

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; STANDARDS; WEB SERVICES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84875022148     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2011.38     Document Type: Article

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