Semantic Web Technologies And E-Business Toward The Integrated anization And Business Process Automation.pdf


Semantic Web
Technologies and
E-Business:
Toward the Integrated Virtual
Organization and Business
Process Automation
. Salam
The Unversty of North Carolna at Greensboro, USA
Jason R. Stevens
The Unversty of North Carolna at Greensboro, USA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Semantic web technologies and e-business : toward the integrated anization and business process
automation / A. F. Salam and Jason R. Stevens, editors.
p. cm.
Summary: “This book presents research related to the application of semantic Web technologies, including
semantic service-oriented architecture, semantic content management, and semantic knowledge sharing in e-
business processes. pile