Computer scientists and related researchers survey examples of the increasing application of information science in selling services of all kinds. In sections on basic concepts and theories, intelligent technologies, and applications and case studies, they consider such topics as transactional properties of complex web services, an ontological structure for semantic retrieval based on description logics, service oriented enterprise interoperability in the automobile supply chain, a car navigation system using genetic algorithm processor, and business models for insurance of business web services. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
