Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
— One of the benefits of web services is their ability to participate in a web services composition process. Therefore, an end-to-end QoS infrastructure should be established. W...
Semantic Web Services are a promising combination of Semantic Web and Web service technology, aiming at providing means of automatically executing, discovering and composing seman...
Mario T. Schlosser, Michael Sintek, Stefan Decker,...
With the rapid advancements in positioning technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) and wireless communications, the tracking of continuously moving objects has bec...
Interval availability is a dependability measure defined by the fraction of time during which a system is in operation over a finite observation period. The computation of its d...