Since more networking technologies and communication channels have been developed, Internet users have moved their roles from being strictly information consumers to both informat...
Ontologies as means for formally specifying the vocabulary and relationship of concepts are seen playing a key role on the Semantic Web. However, the Web’s distributed nature mak...
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Current composite web service development and management solutions, e.g. BPEL, do not cater for assessing and maintaining comparability of business partners during business collab...
We provide precise high-level models for eight fundamental service interaction patterns, together with schemes for their composition into complex service-based business process int...