Efficient Community Formation for Web Services

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 586-600

  Asl, Ehsan Khosrowshahi ^a   Bentahar, Jamal ^a   Otrok, Hadi ^b   Mizouni, Rabeb ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

community of services; cooperative game theory; Web services

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY; GAME THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TAXATION; WEBSITES;

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; COMMUNITY OF SERVICES; COOPERATIVE GAME; COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; FORMATION MECHANISM; GROUP EFFICIENCY; LOOSELY COUPLED; SHAPLEY VALUE;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84939239147     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2014.2312940     Document Type: Article

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