Requirements for a service description language - findings from a Delphi study

Handbook of Service Description: USDL and Its Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 503-519

  Matzner, Martin ^a   Becker, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMIOTICS;

DELPHI STUDY; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; MULTI STAGE; POTENTIAL USERS; SEMIOTIC THEORY; SERVICE DESCRIPTION; SERVICE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE; STATUS QUO;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 84880266245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1864-1_20     Document Type: Chapter

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