—Web Services are interfaces that describe a collection of operations that are network-accessible through standardized web protocols. When a required operation is not found, seve...
Web service discovery is a key problem as the number of services is expected to increase dramatically. Service discovery at the present time is based primarily on keywords, or int...
As more and more Web services are deployed, Web service's discovery mechanisms become essential. Similar services can have quite different QoS levels. For service selection a...
The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...
The traditional crawlers used by search engines to build their collection of Web pages frequently gather unmodified pages that already exist in their collection. This creates unne...