Simple resource specification, resource selection, and effective binding are critical capabilities for Grid middleware. We the Virtual Grid, an abstraction for dynamic grid applic...
Yang-Suk Kee, D. Logothetis, Richard Y. Huang, Hen...
Description Logics (DLs) are the formal foundations of the standard web ontology languages OWL-DL and OWL-Lite. In the Semantic Web and other domains, ontologies are increasingly ...
Z39.50 is a client/server protocol widely used in digital libraries and museums for searching and retrieving information spread over a number of heterogeneous sources. To overcome ...
Currently negotiation covers a huge and unstructured domain of negotiation- and coordination protocols and associated strategies. Researchers and practitioners like system enginee...
We show how the formal description language LOTOS can be used to de ne software architectures and how patterns over LOTOS can serve to characterize architectural styles. We charact...