Semantic reliability in distributed systems: Ontology issues and system engineering

Proceedings - IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 292-300

  Linn, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Hardware; Multiagent systems; Ontologies; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Semantic Web; Software engineering; Systems engineering and theory; Web services

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HARDWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; RELIABILITY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMIOTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC MISMATCHES; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND THEORIES;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 84945181047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI.2003.1241207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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