The Web Services world consists of loosely-coupled distributed systems which adapt to ad-hoc changes by the use of service descriptions that enable opportunistic service discovery...
Google Maps and Google Earth are very popular web mapping services but they are not open and not OGC-compliant. The question arises why this is not the case. One reason is that com...
The Semantic Web is being designed to enable automated reasoners to be used as core components in a wide variety of Web applications and services. In order for a client to accept ...
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L. McGuinness, Ri...
The web-services stack of standards is designed to support the reuse and interoperation of software components on the web. A critical step, to that end, is service discovery, i.e....
—For demanding Grid applications that use resources at different cluster sites a reservation mechanism ensures the availability of resources to guarantee a certain level of QoS. ...
Christoph Barz, Peter Martini, Markus Pilz, Floria...