Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
Abstract. Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) solves problems by reusing past problemsolving experiences maintained in a casebase. The key CBR knowledge container therefore is its casebase....
Abstract— Maintaining semantic consistency of data is a significant problem in distributed information systems, particularly those on which a business may depend. Our current wo...
Jeremy W. Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Ro...
Abstract-- When dealing with massive quantities of data, topk queries are a powerful technique for returning only the k most relevant tuples for inspection, based on a scoring func...
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...