Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has been developed and standardised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is one of the key technologies underpinning the Semantic Web, but its...
Though similarities between the Semantic Web language RDF(S) and languages of the Conceptual Graphs family have often been pointed out, the differences between these formalisms hav...
Over the last few years several process-based web service composition languages have emerged, such as BPEL4WS and BPML. These languages define the composition on the basis of a pr...
Reliable and atomic transactions are a key to successful eBusiness interactions. Reliable messaging subsystems, such as IBM’s MQ Series, or broker-based techniques have been tra...